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16 September, 1999The USWA's "Don't Tread on Us" campaign at Continental General Tire may have reached its conclusion.
USA: According to a United Steelworkers of America press statement released on September 15, the USWA Local 850 in Charlotte, North Carolina, has reached a tentative contract agreement with the German-owned Continental General Tire Company. The 1,450 USWA workers at the Charlotte plant have been on strike for one year following the refusal of the management to negotiate in good faith.
The tentative agreement will be voted on by USWA Local 850 members on Sunday, September 19. Monday, September 20, will mark the one-year anniversary of the strike's launch.
Tentative agreements with Continental General Tire were simultaneously reached by USWA Local 665 in Mayfield, Kentucky, and USWA Local 890 in Bryan, Ohio, and will also be the subject of ratification votes by workers at these plants. Before these tentative agreements were reached, contracts at the Ohio and Kentucky plants were not due to expire until late in the year 2000.
Details of the agreements, which if ratified will expire in 2006, will not be available until Steelworkers at the three plants have voted on them.
In a show of international solidarity, the IMF's 1999 Central Committee adopted a resolution in support of the USWA's "Don't Tread on Us" struggle. Letters of support and solidarity were sent to the union, and protest letters to Continental AG's head offices in Germany.
For more information, click on associated link at top left or see IMF NewsBriefs No. 5, 1999.
The tentative agreement will be voted on by USWA Local 850 members on Sunday, September 19. Monday, September 20, will mark the one-year anniversary of the strike's launch.
Tentative agreements with Continental General Tire were simultaneously reached by USWA Local 665 in Mayfield, Kentucky, and USWA Local 890 in Bryan, Ohio, and will also be the subject of ratification votes by workers at these plants. Before these tentative agreements were reached, contracts at the Ohio and Kentucky plants were not due to expire until late in the year 2000.
Details of the agreements, which if ratified will expire in 2006, will not be available until Steelworkers at the three plants have voted on them.
In a show of international solidarity, the IMF's 1999 Central Committee adopted a resolution in support of the USWA's "Don't Tread on Us" struggle. Letters of support and solidarity were sent to the union, and protest letters to Continental AG's head offices in Germany.
For more information, click on associated link at top left or see IMF NewsBriefs No. 5, 1999.