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A Six and a Half Year Fight Ends with a Contract for Workers at INEOS Pigments
Written by Linda D. Wattley Six and a half years ago former ICWUC President Frank Cyphers and former Organizer, now current President of the ICWUC Lance Heasley met with workers of Cristal in Ashtabula, OH (now known as INEOS) for the first time. Lance continued to work with those workers and eventually filed a petition…
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Elementis workers win NLRB election with UNANIMOUS vote!
On June 8 & 9, twenty-five workers at Elementis Specialties, Inc. in New Martinsville, WV won a NLRB election to join ICWUC Local 566C with a unanimous vote. Quote from Elementis worker Nate Frum, “Wow! a unanimous vote! A big thank you to President Heasley and John Getz for helping the employees at Elementis to…
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INEOS Workers Join Our Union Family
On August 27, over 140 workers at two INEOS Pigments plants in Ashtabula, Ohio, joined the ICWUC/UFCW and International Brotherhood of Teamsters. INEOS is a global chemical company, and INEOS Pigments is one of the largest producers of titanium dioxide in North America. This organizing victory is the result of a five-year effort to organize…
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After long legal fight workers at Sun Chemical in Kankakee, IL vote to join ICWUC Local 498C!
Then Organizer Lance Heasley filed a RC Petition with the NLRB on December 23, for all Maintenance, Shipping/Receiving, Production, and Lab employees at the Sun Chemical Kankakee, IL location. Sun Chemical tried every tactic in the book (resulting in us filing 2 separate petitions and have 2 separate elections) to delay things but the workers…
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ICWUC gives you Job Security
Job security is an important benefit of joining a union. We can help protect workers from arbitrary firings or layoffs by establishing clear procedures for discipline and termination. In cases where layoffs are necessary, ICWUC can negotiate for things like severance pay or retraining programs to help affected employees transition to new jobs. By ensuring…
