Clearly shaken by these activities, company officials responsible for negotiations began to wonder how to settle down a membership in motion. Membership activity paid off in the last two days of negotiations, when the company dropped its attack on overtime after 8 hours and agreed to an additional paid holiday and a dental plan in addition to improvements in wages. These are the first real benefit improvements in 13 years. Metal tenders won an additional 30-cent inequity increase in each year. Light duty pay is increased from 85 to 90 percent of the regular rate.
Workers have the option of picking up the cost of adding their families.
Effective in the second year, employees will be entitled to an additional floating holiday. Other negotiated improvements include new limits on the use of temporary employees, limits to company requirements that workers use vacation time for FMLA leave, automatic progression from Die Caster III to Die Caster II, a second step meeting in the grievance procedure and improvements in the absenteeism policy. The UE negotiating committee consisted of Local Pres. Keith Scribner, Vice Pres. Bob Segura and Sec.