[CPEO-MEF] Steelworkers stirke at Navy nuclear fuel supplies

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Striking Steelworkers oppose inexperienced replacement workers at 
sensitive nuclear fuel plant in Tennessee, supplier for US Navy

United Steel Workers
For Immediate Release
September 1, 2006

PITTSBURGH - Striking workers at the Nuclear Fuel Services (NSF) 
facility in Erwin, Tennessee remain united and determined to gain a fair 
union contract despite aggressive and potentially dangerous anti-union 
actions by management at this 370-worker facility that supplies the US 
Navy nuclear fleet.

Members of United Steelworkers Local 9-677 have been on strike at the 
nuclear fuel facility since May 16, 2006, seeking to improve benefits 
and working conditions and strengthen restrictions on sub-contracting. 
Union workers are also fending off company demands to eliminate the 
defined benefit pension plan and replacing it with a 401k savings plan.

"After almost four months, the union members remain united in this fight 
to protect our hard-won benefits," said Roger Birchfield, president of 
Local 9-677. He said management has used sub-contractors and salaried 
employees in attempts to keep the plant running, and in recent weeks, 
new and inexperienced replacement workers


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For the entire release, see
http://www.usw.org/uswa/program/content/3347.php

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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