UE NEWS Updates

UE Local 683 members at Liberty Iron and Metal are celebrating the reinstatement of fellow worker Verne Bliss, who was unjustly fired on November 1, 2008.  The union grieved the discharge and won reinstatement and a “make whole” remedy in arbitration. Bliss received over $9,200 in back pay and reimbursement for other benefits.

UE Local 222, Sub-local 37, ratified a new three-year contract with the Norwich Housing Authority over the summer.   Wages will increase by 2.5 percent, 3 percent and 3 percent.

UE Local 208 members who work for Northrop Grumman at the Vermont Service Center in St. Albans and Essex Junction, Vermont learned recently that they will soon receive large back pay checks as part of a settlement reached between the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and their former employers. Most UE members will receive checks of between $7,000 and $10,000.

A coalition of community groups and labor organizations, including UE, are planning to demonstrate at the annual convention of the American Bankers Association on October 27 in Chicago.