Niles GE workers strike over grievance

Source: Associated Press

Niles GE workers strike over grievance
Saturday, June 9, 2007
By The Associated Press

NILES, Ohio Union workers at a General Electric Co. glass manufacturing plant voted to strike for at least two days over a grievance related to vacation time, the union said.

United Electrical Workers Local 751, with about 125 workers at the plant, walked off the job at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and began picketing outside the GE Mahoning Glass Plant in this northeast Ohio city about 10 miles northwest of Youngstown.

Managers have kept production going, GE spokeswoman Janice Fraser said Friday.

Dennis Hayda, union shop steward, said union members are scheduled to vote today on whether to return to their jobs at the plant where workers make glass used for GE spotlights and floodlights.



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