STRIKE * USA - Navistar keeps on trucking
Navistar temporarily moved truck production from its Springfield, Ohio, plant to non-union plants in Texas and Mexico
Chicago,Ill,USA -The Chicago Sun-Times, by FRANCINE KNOWLES -October 25, 2007: -- As several thousand workers picketed Navistar International Corp. work sites Wednesday, the world's fourth-largest truck maker said the strike called by the United Auto Workers a day earlier hasn't wreaked havoc on operations... The UAW launched the strike covering 4,000 UAW members Tuesday at Navistar facilities in six states, including its Melrose Park plant, which has roughly 500 hourly workers. The union, whose contract with the company expired Oct. 1, accused the company of unfair labor practices... Navistar temporarily moved truck production from its Springfield, Ohio, plant to non-union plants in Texas and Mexico because of concerns about a possible strike. That work will remain at those sites until the ratification of a new contract with the UAW, Wiley said...
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