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“This strike is in response to company greed,” Barbara Belotti, a striker with five years’ seniority, told the Militant. “The United Technologies CEO got $88 million last year and won’t leave our health care alone.” Sikorsky is a division of United Technologies Corporation.
Picketing is carried out seven days a week. Workers are also on strike at four other smaller plants in West Haven, Bridgeport, and Shelton, Connecticut, and West Palm Beach, Florida.
—Dan Fein
Union forces Bronx, N.Y.
packing plant to reverse firing
BRONX, New York—The bosses at Garden Manor Farms, a meat plant in the Hunts Point Meat Market here, fired Kevin Carr late in the shift on February 21 for “insubordination.” The workers’ union, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 342, helped him win his job back. Workers at the plant struck twice a few years ago to win a union election and their first union contract.
Over the two days following the firing, union members carried out a job action to show unity and support for Carr. On February 24, the union delegate and shop steward met with the bosses to demand the firing be retracted. Afterward they returned to the shop floor, where they stopped production and organized all the workers to hear the delegate announce that Carr would be back on the job Monday morning. “This proves it was worth the fight to get the union here,” shop steward Robert Roman told the Militant. Carr said, “I didn’t think we were going to win. They gave us a hard time for three hours before backing down.”
—Dan Fein
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