Lock Out at Marietta Plant in Pennsylvania Now Six Weeks

Tom Jones, International Representative for the United Steelworkers (USW) in Eastern Pennsylvania, today responded to public assertions by Armstrong World Industries in the union negotiations of this past week involving 260 union workers who were locked out of their jobs at the ceiling tile factory on July 17.

Jones said: “Armstrong’s corporate spokesperson, Jennifer Johnson, was obviously uninformed in comments last week claiming union members had not yet voted on the company’s last proposal.”

He explained, “The USW Local 285-441 union members all chose not to vote on a lesser offer, after the membership voted down the first offer by a 9 to 1 margin ... more