Word: cambion
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...STRIKE is over at Cambion, at least for the time being. Workers were forced to return to work after seven months of facing a company that used illegal and deceitful methods in a blatant attempt to destroy the union at its Concord Ave. plant...
...When Cambion management continued to refuse to bargain at recent meetings arranged by various parties--including federal and state mediators and City Manager James L. Sullivan--union leadership realized their position was hopeless and they recommended that the rank and file vote to end the strike...
...strike also has important economic ramifications locally. In comparison with other Cambridge factories, a significantly large proportion of Cambion workers are Cambridge residents. Local unemployment as a result of the strike is detrimental to local economy. And if management relocates production out of state, as it has said it might, Massachusetts--with its already high unemployment and flagging economy--will suffer even more...
...greater importance is the potential damage to the labor organizing in this industry if the strike is broken. Natonally, union organizing has been sluggish. Other electronic firms and their employees are watching the Cambion strike closely. The relatively new industry, with its low wage levels is almost entirely non-union. If UE Local 262 succeeds in negotiating a fair contract, fellow employees in the industry will be encouraged to organize, and management will be far more likely to cooperate. But if the strike is broken, unionizing will suffer...
Workers' demands in the Cambion strike have been both reasonable and justified. Management's response has been nothing less than reprehensible. UE Local 262 should be supported in its struggle...