IBEW Local 1632 (Horseheads, NY) Negotiates Severance for members at MT Picture Tube Plant

From Television Station WENY, Channel 36 in Elmira, New York:
http://www.weny.com/News-Local.asp?ARTICLE3864=35834


Tentative Severance Package Agreement

By Lee Bacalles

Local 1632 I.B.E.W.and MT Picture Display officials have reached a tentative agreement on a severance package for workers at the Horseheads plant.

The package includes one weeks pay for every full year of service, plus three hundred dollars and three months of paid medical premiums.

Company Spokesman Mike Lenzner says employees need to sign a general release in order to get those benefits. He says since the company's announcement on October 27th that the plant was shutting down, employees worked without incident to produce more than 72-thousand picture tubes.

Company officials blame the closure on a sagging cathode ray tube industry and foreign imports. Hourly union workers will vote on the severance package next Wednesday.











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