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Report

15 May 2014

Author:
AFL-CIO & United Steelworkers (USA)

Huhtamaki’s U.S. Expansion Model: A Low-Wage, Low-Cost, Low-Responsibility Model of Employment,

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The Huhtamaki Group is a global manufacturer of consumer and specialty package products with focus and expertise in molded fiber packaging, flexible packaging, release films and paper cups...[h]eadquartered in Finland...[For] workers in the unionized facilities, the acquisition of the Batavia facility, in addition to the acquisition of other nonunion sites in recent years, presents a threat to the jobs and livelihoods of the workers who helped to build the company and its profits. Work in the nonunion plants compared to work in the unionized plants is dramatically different...[Workers] in the nonunion sites also face a threat to their livelihood. They face low wages, few or no benefits, unsafe working conditions... [Other issues:] Using a high percentage of temp workers in the general workforce... Treating workers in nonunion facilities as an expendable workforce...Cutting costs on occupational safety and health...Downward pressure on the unionized workforce...Investing in a union-busting law firm [Littler Mendelson]...