Leather workers lose jobs
June 12, 2003 | Dexigner Team
Some Garden State Tanning workers came off strike this week only to learn that their jobs were being eliminated, a union official said Wednesday.
The automotive leather manufacturer permanently moved 90 cutting department jobs to the company's Fleetwood, Pa., plant, said Bob Hinkle, a representative for the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Workers.
Garden State had transferred the work during the nine-day strike in Williamsport and the company refuses to return the work now that the strike is settled, Hinkle said.
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