MPP Workers Host Picket in Fight for Fair Contract

Last week, IUE-CWA workers at Metal Powder Products (MPP) in Campbellsburg, Ind. (IUE-CWA Local 88502), expressed their frustration with the company by holding an informational picket. Workers have been in negotiations for over a year with no agreement in sight.

MPP management has delayed progress, rejecting basic improvement proposals. The bargaining team was able to secure annual pay raises for workers, but key issues remain unresolved, including a full wage package, 401(k) matching, affordable insurance, and an end to the recently implemented “earn-as-you-go” vacation accrual system. Workers have filed multiple Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against the company with the National Labor Relations Board for surveilling employees doing union activities, withholding raises and evaluations, and even organizing a search of the shop by police who deployed K-9 units.

“It felt like a raid—police with dogs going through the facility with no warning,” said one MPP worker. “There was no incident or reason for it. It felt like an attempt to scare us, to punish us for standing together. We’re not the enemy. We’re the people who’ve kept this place running and helped build MPP into what it is. This community has always supported this company, but we deserve respect and fairness in return.”

Read more about MPP workers here.

 
CWA members at Metal Powder Products (IUE-CWA Local 88502) held an informational picket outside the Campbellsburg, Ind., facility last week in protest of delay tactics and unfair labor practices by management.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.