Resisting Concessions Pays Off For York, Pennsylvania Harley Workers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/5347

Resisting Concessions Pays Off For York, Pennsylvania Harley Workers - 02/23/07

By Doug Cunningham

By voting to strike rather than accept concessions Harley-Davidson workers in York, Pennsylvania won a wage increase without having to pay any health insurance premiums. Wage rates for new hires will stay the same instead of being lower as Harley had demanded. Members of the International Association of Machinists have voted to ratify the tentative agreement. The IAM’s Tom Boger says this contract agreement is much better than the company proposal that was rejected by the workers. The York plant’s production was stopped for three weeks when Harley locked out the workers after they rejected concessions.

AUDIO story: http://www.laborradio.org/files/lo/winsheadlines.ram

[Bluzmann57]

1. Good news

I'm glad the IAM people stuck together and helped out future employees of Harley-Davidson. But one question, were they locked out, or did they strike? It says in the article that the company locked the IAM people out and that is not a strike.
on edit- I once belonged to the International Association of Machinists and am glad that they finally appear to have won one. Solidarity is the only way to combat corporatations.

[Sherman A1]

2. Agreed

One for the good guys!

[Omaha Steve]

3. First it was a lock out...

that turned into a strike if I understand what happened correctly.