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Manufacturers say China too pricey

Ted Carter — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:01:34 +0000

Simple arithmetic drove North Carolinian Bruce Cochrane to start making furniture in the Tar Heel State instead of China. The fifth-generation furniture maker’s calculations convinced him he could not afford to make furniture in China, where he had spent the last 10 years as a furniture manufacturing consultant and had witnessed rising costs and declining [...]

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Allstate agents approve affiliation with union

MBJ Staff — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:30:29 +0000

GULFPORT — Approximately a week after a vote in favor of affiliating with Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), AFL-CIO, the board of directors of the National Association of Professional Allstate Agents Inc. (NAPAA) voted to approve the affiliation. The roll call vote by the board followed a secret ballot in which, according to [...]

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Allstate agents vote ‘yes’ to unionizing

MBJ Staff — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:33:04 +0000

GULFPORT — Members of the National Association of Professional Allstate Agents (NAPAA) have voted to affiliate with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), AFL-CI, according to the union. Secret ballots were mailed to all 1,200 members of Gulfport-based NAPAA and when the ballots were tallied, more than 94 percent had voted in favor [...]

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Allstate agents to vote on joining union

MBJ Staff — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:25:33 +0000

GULFPORT — Members of the National Association of Professional Allstate Agents Inc. (NAPAA) in Gulfport will soon take part in a secret mail ballot vote that will decide whether the Association will affiliate with Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) as a guild. This according to the OPEIU. The vote will be administered by [...]

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Omnova workers could vote to decertify union

Associated Press — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:54:06 +0000

COLUMBUS — A vote could soon be taken to decertify the union at Omnova Solutions Inc. in Columbus, where some workers have been on strike for a year. The Columbus Dispatch reports a group of replacement workers have filed a request with the National Labor Relations Board to take a decertification vote. The more than [...]

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Union challenges awarding of Katrina funding

Associated Press — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:20:12 +0000

GULF COAST — The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is calling for an investigation into “the growing practice by Gulf Coast states of using federal disaster relief funds to persuade established manufacturing facilities to relocate from other states.” In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, IAM International president Tom Buffenbarger [...]

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Nurses voting on tentative labor agreement

Associated Press — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:28:04 +0000

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Thousands of Minnesota nurses began going to the polls early today to vote on a tentative labor agreement with 14 hospitals that averted a strike set for this week. The 12,000 members of Minnesota Nurses Association are voting from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. at locations in St. Paul and Brooklyn Park. [...]

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Fiat vows to work with Italian labor unions

Associated Press — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:03:50 +0000

ROME — Fiat promised today to work with unions in Italy to gain concessions so it can move production of the new Panda hatchback from Poland to a plant outside Naples often troubled by labor issues. The Turin-based auto company issued a statement following a referendum among workers in which 62 percent voted in favor [...]

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Hershey workers voting on labor agreement

Associated Press — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:14:20 +0000

HERSHEY, Pa. — Workers at the hometown plants of chocolate manufacturer Hershey are voting on a labor deal that could cut hundreds of jobs. Employees began voting this morning on a restructuring agreement that would expand one of the plants in Hershey and turn the original factory built by founder Milton Hershey into an office [...]

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AT&T Mobility workers ratify agreement

Wally Northway — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:36:04 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — AT&T Mobility, LLC, employees in its Southeast Region (CWA District 3) have voted to ratify a four-year agreement with the Communications Workers of America. The agreement covers about 11,200 CWA members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. AT&T Mobility and the CWA had reached the [...]

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