Word: morgane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five-year contract, with a wage increase each year. There were increases in the company's payments for pension and other benefits. Indeed, there was no reduction in any benefit payments by the company. There was no reduction in work standards. This certainly was not the package Morgan portrayed...
...Morgan notes that 36 workers have been fired in recent weeks due to "picket line violations" that include "swearing." While the dictates of good taste prohibit me from detailing specifically what was said, suffice it to say that threatening to rape and kill employees and their families in what the Boston Herald termed "shockingly graphic" terms does not constitute "swearing." This type of sexual and racial harassment would not be tolerated at Harvard University, in any newsroom in the country or indeed at any workplace. The National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency charged with the oversight of labor disputes...
Contrary to Morgan's assertion, Cardinal Health took every reasonable step to avoid the strike with Teamsters Local 42. The company even offered on three separate occasions to extend the contract, so that employees could continue to work and earn a paycheck while the negotiations continued. These are hardly the actions of a company determined to, in Morgan's words, "break the union." The union refused to consider these offers and chose to go out on strike...
...Morgan's assertion that the company hired 300 replacement workers less than two hours after the union vote is ridiculous. The company did not hire any replacement workers until the union rejected the contract offer and indicated that it would not extend the contract. Further, Cardinal informed the union that replacement workers would be hired in order to service the needs of the health-care community, which depends on efficient and speedy delivery of products by Cardinal. The company did not hire a full workforce until weeks after the union began the strike. It should also be noted that...
...Finally, Morgan writes that a private security force was hired by Cardinal Health. That is true, as we value the safety of our employees. There is no truth to Morgan's allegations of brutality by this security firm. The security guards have acted professionally at all times, under very trying circumstances...