Although employees at ABC Group Exterior Systems voted April 10 for Teamsters representation, the organizing campaign began in January at the plant which manufactures plastic automotive parts. They actually told the employees the plant would shut down if the union came in, Spadacini said. Company officials also made some temporary employees full-time, and offered pay increases to all the workers to get them to vote against representation. Local 847 has filed an unfair labor practices charge. Local 847 hopes to negotiate a contract soon that will give employees higher wages and better benefits.
Most employees now earn the minimum wage.