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[Newspaper] Publication: The Muncie Star Muncie, IN, United States |
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Glass Plants Negotiations Continuing
Industry-wide negotiations in Toledo are being continued between the National Association of Manufacturers of Pressed and Blown Glassware and the AFL Flint Glass Workers' union, according to Everett Hayden, 105 Janney Ave., financial secretary, and William Miller, 625 W. 5th St., recording secretary, both of local union 517. They said negotiations were recessed about 6:30 p.m. Monday to be resumed about 10 a.m. Tuesday. The financial secretary said a delay occurred Monday when a labor conciliator didn't arrive. He is to be in Toledo Tuesday, Hayden said. 11 Companies Involved. The association represents 11 firms and the union has 6,200 workers idled by struck plants in three states. Picket lines were thrown up early Saturday at one Muncie plant, the Kimble Glass Company, employing 400. The sessions in Toledo have not affected Ball Brothers Company, Muncie, or other eastern Indiana glass plants in the container industry. AFGWU workers in the latter plants consist mainly of moulders whose contract is being negotiated at Toledo. The main issue between the union and the companies has been the demand by the former for a 20 per cent wage hike or 20 cents an hour. This has been modified but neither side would say how much. The Kimble Glass Company, which makes glass insulators and glass building blocks employs 400 operators and mouldmakers who are members of Locals 517 and 32, AFGWU. Approximately 50 mouldmakers at Ball Brothers Company are members of Local 50, AFGWU. Work is continuing at the Anchor Hocking plant and the Overmyer Mould Company at Winchester and the Armstrong Cork at Dunkirk. |