The sugar company wants to cut benefits and increase pay, but workers say the compromise isn’t worth it.
Workers at C&H Sugar hope to sit down at the negotiating table with the company this week, after dozens walked out last month over disputes about retirement benefits and overtime.
The talks will be the first since the strike began. They come only days after allied workers who typically unload the sugar at the Crockett refinery said some of the operations were outsourced to a terminal in Richmond because they joined the picket line.
Around 90 International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6 warehouse workers at the refinery started an open-ended strike on June 15 following an impasse in negotiations. C&H dockworkers from ILWU Local 10 refused to cross the picket line and joined the strike in solidarity…