Warehouse workers at the C&H Sugar factory in Crockett walked out this week, launching a strike against a three-year contract renewal they call “egregious.”
The 90 warehouse workers, represented by Oakland-based International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6, say C&H proposed a raw deal: cutting five of 10 annual sick days, doing away with benefits for retired workers and revising rules so management could dodge paying overtime.
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