Omnova attorney: Replacement workers harassed
Omnova Solutions wants to keep the names and addresses of its 140 replacement workers private due to concerns for their safety. Meanwhile, the company’s affiliated union, the United Steelworkers Local 748-L, is challenging the validity of a petition to decertify the union, which has been on strike since May 21, 2010.
Omnova union vows to fight decertification
The process to decertify the union affiliated with Columbus’ Omnova plant is moving forward. And members of Local 748-L plan to fight the decertification until the end. Union members plan to contest plans to take a decertification vote from the more than 100 workers hired to replace them.
Lowndes Supes, Columbus Council stay out of Omnova strike
Lowndes supervisors and Columbus City Council members this week declined to officially intervene in the strike at Omnova Solutions, turning down a request from the company’s union to send letters asking that bargaining over a union contract resume.
Some Omnova strikers finding other jobs to make ends meet
As a flurry of shoppers made the rounds at local retailers for the biggest shopping day of the year, Ed Clemons sat outside Omnova, battling the cold with a small propane heater.
Tacky behavior
Some disturbing behavior has accompanied the five-month-old strike at Omnova Solutions in Columbus.
More than 100 flat tires reported in wake of Omnova strike
Omnova Solutions Inc. employees have reported more than 100 flat tires caused by roofing nails and screws since July, two months after union workers went on strike.
After five months, Omnova strikers still hold out
After 43 years at Omnova, Gene Gore of Columbus has put in more than enough time to retire. And with six children and 12 grandchildren, he has enough reasons to compel him to do so. But instead of resigning to a life of leisure and bouncing grandbabies, Gore mans the union hall across Yorkville Road from the Omnova plant.
Omnova strikers stand firm
Gary Elliott has a wife and four children, ages 21, 19, 17 and 13. And for nearly two months, he’s been without his regular pay, living on weekly stipends from his union.
Thinks Omnova strikers unreasonable
Ethel et al. (The writer is referring to online bloggers. ed.) seem to think that Omnova exists just to give them a paycheck just because “I’ve been here 30 years and they can’t cut my salary or benefits. Boo hoo.
Weeks later, Omnova, strikers still at odds
Today marks the two-week point for workers on strike at Omnova Solutions Inc.’s Columbus plant.