Machinists union members at Vought Aircraft’s Nashville plant will vote today on whether to accept the company’s new contract proposal and end a strike that began in late September.
The offer is largely the same one that union negotiators turned down in November and slightly different than the original proposal workers rejected by 94 percent on Sept. 27, the Tennessean said today.
Vought last week threatened to begin hiring replacement workers for the strikers. It also said it was considering moving work it had won on Cessna’s new Citation Columbus to its plant near Dallas because it had to assure Cessna that work would begin on schedule.
About 1,000 Vought workers in Nashville are represented by the Machinists. About 900 of them remain on strike, the report said. The rest have crossed the picket lines and returned to work.
What do you think? Will Vought’s threat to hire replacement workers impact union negotiations at other aircraft companies in the future? I’d like to hear your views.
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With then job market,I think they should hire people that want to work.
Their quality has been so poor in the past they couldn’t do worse to hire new workers. the union and it’s workers had better wake up to the recession and and get back to work until things look better.