Striking Libbey Glass workers show no signs of wavering in their attempt to secure a new contract with the company.
About 25 members of the steelworkers and machinists unions manned the picket lines outside the gates of the company’s North Toledo plant Monday. The strike began Aug. 23 following claims by the unions that the company had failed to bargain in good faith and to propose a fair contract for its employees.
“The company keeps repeating the same offer,” said Don Dudley, a mold maker who traces his family’s roots at Libbey Glass back to his great-grandfather who, according to family lore, blew bottles from blobs of molten glass. Mr. Dudley said the company was trying to hire foreign workers to cross the union’s picket line and trying to induce employees to resign from the union…