The head of UAW Local 180, the union representing hundreds of CNH/Case employees in Racine and Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, said that the company’s most recent offer included wages below a living wage and called the offer "bologna."
Neither side has been specific about the offers made have been, but Yasin Mahdi, UAW Local 180 president, decried the latest offer, as reported by the Racine Journal Times. Read the entire article here.
CNH Industrial says it is negotiating in good faith and that its most recent offer was “all-encompassing” and “comprehensive.”
UAW’s strike in the Racine area as well as in Burlington, Iowa, began May 2.
Mahdi told the Journal Times the longer the strike goes on, the better the offers from CNH will get. He noted that John Deere, one of CNH’s major competitors, faced a widespread strike for just over a month last fall. So long as John Deere continues producing tractors and other equipment, and CNH is held back by the striking of more than 1,000 American workers, farmers and other consumers may turn to John Deere—a detriment to CNH.
Source: The Journal Times
