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Retiree benefits, overtime rules at heart of the first C&H Sugar workers strike in decades
Warehouse workers at the C&H Sugar factory in Crockett walked out this week, launching a strike against a three-year contract renewal they call “egregious.” The 90 warehouse workers, represented by Oakland-based International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6, say C&H proposed a raw deal: cutting five of 10 annual sick days, doing away with benefits […] The post Retiree benefits, overtime rules at heart of the first C&H Sugar workers strike in decades appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Retiree benefits, overtime rules at heart of the first C&H Sugar workers strike in decades, Warehouse workers at the C&H Sugar factory in Crockett walked out this week, launching a strike against a three-year contract renewal they call “egregious.” The 90 warehouse workers, represented by Oakland-based International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6, say C&H proposed a raw deal: cutting five of 10 annual sick days, doing away with benefits […] The post Retiree benefits, overtime rules at heart of the first C&H Sugar workers strike in decades appeared first on Local News Matters .
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