ALCOA, union (5,400 at 10 plants in the US) agree to tentative contract

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Daily Times

By Robert Norris

Negotiators had their shot at drawing up a new labor agreement between ALCOA and the United Steelworkers. Now it’s up to the union’s rank and file to ratify or not.

The company and the union agreed Tuesday to a tentative contract that, if ratified by a vote of the union membership, would last through May 15, 2014.

The new four-year labor contract would cover 5,400 workers at 10 manufacturing locations in the U.S., including Tennessee Operations.

The previous contract expired at 12:59 a.m. Tuesday, but negotiators agreed to an 11-hour extension so union officials would have more time to study the company’s “last, best and final offer.”

Read more: http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20100602/NEWS/306029964

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This should make DUer penndragon69 very happy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4404299

I am appalled by the company's ideas about a fair contract.
So what is fair about THEIR ideas?

Ignore seniority at company discretion.
Lay Anybody off at any time at the company's discretion.
Adjust work hours anytime at the company's discretion.
Hire new people for the jobs while people are still layed off at the company's discretion.
Put employees on 30 hour weeks or layed off on an "on call" status, at the company's discretion.
Shift the cost of health insurance onto the workers at the company's discretion.
Change the rules of your health care plan at the company's discretion.

Save millions of dollars in workers pay and benefits
and use them to pay their own bonuses and bloated executive salaries.

Alcoa wants to create a slave labor work force that lives by the phone, waiting for
a call to report for work that may never come...
( especially if you are a union member).

I and my fellow Alcoans are ready to go on strike to stop the company from
destroying what we have built over the last 100 years of the labor fight.

Reaganomics can kiss my UNION ASS !

[proudohioan]

1. K&R!!!!

It's about time that we took a stand in solidarity for our OWN families 'ability to compete' and 'flexibility', not the families of the CEO!