Union Meeting will be February 9th, 7:30 p.m., at the American Legion. Everyone is encouraged to attend!
10 Question about the GPC Lock out.
#1. Q Of the 300 Union employees of GPC, were they locked out or out on strike?
A. They've been locked out.
#2. Q. What's the difference?
A. A strike occurs when the Union votes down a company's contract offer and VOTES to Strike. A lock out is the result of a company refusing to let their hourly employees to work. The Union has no vote or choice.
#3. Q. Did GPC lock out their employees due to sabotage?
A. Sabotage, accident, or excuse. We may never know for sure they have offered no proof of their claim.
#4. Q. GPC claims the lock out was due to economics.
A. Yes, one month after the lock out Gage Kent donated $150,000 to Washington, Indiana for an
aquatic center. They also had funds to buy insert land and a road on the south end of town. Yet at the
same time, they have frozen salaried workers wages and lowered the company's profit sharing
contributions from 15% to 3%. The hourly workers for GPC get a contribution of 2%.
#5. Q. Has GPC put an outsourcing clause in the proposed contract?
A. Yes, which means seniority means nothing. ZERO! The company could use outside contractors to replace hourly employees at ANY time.
#6. Q. Why hasn't GPC and the Union board met in months to negotiate?
A. The company asked the Union board not to call unless they are willing to buckle under and give the company
a proposal.
#7. Q. Does GPC offer sick leave to it's hourly employees?
A. NO, GPC is the only food-grade plant that does not give it's workers sick leave without prior approval.
#8. Q. Has GPC denied prior earned vacation to the locked out workers?
A. Yes, they have denied the employees requests for vacation days that they have previously earned.
The company has also denied funds from the employees 401K profit sharing accounts.
#9. Q. Do the locked out Union members have medical insurance?
A. NO, GPC had the right to let these people keep their insurance or take it away. Sadly, they chose to
take it away.
#10. Q. Do "You" Union workers make good money, why should I support you?
A. Because we're fighting the very fight that EVERY working class American needs to support. We're
telling big businesses they can't give away our jobs, that our seniority IS important, that blue-collar
workers deserve to be compensated too. Not just the CEO's and upper management. This entire country
rests on the backs of the working class. Ask yourself this; what happens to this nation when those
backs break and their is nothing left to give.
#1. Q Of the 300 Union employees of GPC, were they locked out or out on strike?
A. They've been locked out.
#2. Q. What's the difference?
A. A strike occurs when the Union votes down a company's contract offer and VOTES to Strike. A lock out is the result of a company refusing to let their hourly employees to work. The Union has no vote or choice.
#3. Q. Did GPC lock out their employees due to sabotage?
A. Sabotage, accident, or excuse. We may never know for sure they have offered no proof of their claim.
#4. Q. GPC claims the lock out was due to economics.
A. Yes, one month after the lock out Gage Kent donated $150,000 to Washington, Indiana for an
aquatic center. They also had funds to buy insert land and a road on the south end of town. Yet at the
same time, they have frozen salaried workers wages and lowered the company's profit sharing
contributions from 15% to 3%. The hourly workers for GPC get a contribution of 2%.
#5. Q. Has GPC put an outsourcing clause in the proposed contract?
A. Yes, which means seniority means nothing. ZERO! The company could use outside contractors to replace hourly employees at ANY time.
#6. Q. Why hasn't GPC and the Union board met in months to negotiate?
A. The company asked the Union board not to call unless they are willing to buckle under and give the company
a proposal.
#7. Q. Does GPC offer sick leave to it's hourly employees?
A. NO, GPC is the only food-grade plant that does not give it's workers sick leave without prior approval.
#8. Q. Has GPC denied prior earned vacation to the locked out workers?
A. Yes, they have denied the employees requests for vacation days that they have previously earned.
The company has also denied funds from the employees 401K profit sharing accounts.
#9. Q. Do the locked out Union members have medical insurance?
A. NO, GPC had the right to let these people keep their insurance or take it away. Sadly, they chose to
take it away.
#10. Q. Do "You" Union workers make good money, why should I support you?
A. Because we're fighting the very fight that EVERY working class American needs to support. We're
telling big businesses they can't give away our jobs, that our seniority IS important, that blue-collar
workers deserve to be compensated too. Not just the CEO's and upper management. This entire country
rests on the backs of the working class. Ask yourself this; what happens to this nation when those
backs break and their is nothing left to give.
