DES MOINES, Iowa Negotiations have begun toward a new contract covering 15-hundred-30 union workers at Maytag Corporation’s Amana refrigerator plant.
The workers at the plant in Middle Amana, about 15 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids are represented by Local 1526 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Their current contract expires September 25th.
Workers at the Amana plant last went on strike September 23rd, 2001, about two months after Maytag bought the company from Goodman Global Holdings Incorporated. The strike ended about eight weeks later.
The resulting three-year contract boosted pay by about 10 percent and included a two-tiered wage structure that allowed the company to start new workers at lower pay.
The Amana negotiations follow a 27-day strike at Maytag’s laundry products plant in Newton.
From WQAD Channel 8 News