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Inkfreak

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Fri Feb 21, 2014, 09:32 PM Feb 2014

Workers Vote Against Union In Oswego, NY [View all]



Scriba (WSYR-TV) - Workers at Oswego County’s largest employer voted down a proposal to form a union. Novelis says workers in Scriba voted down the proposal during a two-day election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.

http://www.localsyr.com/story/d/story/-/ooLQRUvAkEOt5O8vmn5HCw?utm_content=bufferfb695&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Some employees say that the company has raised healthcare costs, cut overtime pay, and cut benefits at non-union facilities. The plant manager at Novelis says that to help absorb the higher costs, workers got a 5 percent raise and a $2,500 bonus.

http://www.localsyr.com/story/d/story/-/ooLQRUvAkEOt5O8vmn5HCw?utm_content=bufferfb695&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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This is a very big deal within the company - hedgehog Feb 2014 #1
I've got a few family members working there. Inkfreak Feb 2014 #4
BTW - Fulton gets more snow than Oswego! hedgehog Feb 2014 #2
And they can have it!!!! Inkfreak Feb 2014 #5
Damn Southerners voting against their own best interests again.. Fumesucker Feb 2014 #3
Yep. cordelia Feb 2014 #6
Ha! Inkfreak Feb 2014 #7
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