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Ashland Inc. and Union to Bring Dispute before Federal Mediator.(Originated from Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 1996 by Sachdev, Ameet
LEXINGTON, Ky.--Feb. 29--As Ashland Inc. and its striking union prepare to meet with a federal mediator today, both sides say they have the company's best interests at heart.
The labor dispute centers on the company's insistence on scrapping job definitions at its Catlettsburg refinery, the only refinery in the state. Ashland says the provision would lower costs and improve efficiency, a necessary measure in a brutally competitive industry.
It is a refrain that competitors and other industrial companies have been echoing for more than two decades.
Local union officials of the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International say the proposal would jeopardize the safety of the workers and the refinery. A total of 915 union workers have been on strike for...
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