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Less than one week after WestRock escalated its efforts to break the locked out Mahrt Mill workers’ resistance, the three United Steelworkers (USW) locals at the Cottonton, Alabama mill announced the passage of a contract to end the lockout following a fourth round of contract voting.
The workers once again rejected the company’s “last, best, and final offer” on January 4. In response, the company ramped up its efforts to break the workers’ resistance by holding a job fair in Phenix City, Alabama, 26 miles north of Cottonton.
Workers at the WestRock Mahrt Mill in Cottonton, Alabama, have again defied the attempt by management and the USW to impose a concessions agreement.
Five hundred workers at the Mahrt Mill paper mill in Cottonton, Alabama, were locked out Thursday by multinational conglomerate WestRock, which operates the mill.
/PRNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers (USW) said that approximately 480 members of its local unions 971, 1471 and 1972 were locked out of their jobs by...