Massachusetts-Based Raytheon Security Guards' Union Reject Proposed Contract.(Originated from The Boston Globe)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 1997 by Muller, Joann

Jan. 30--Raytheon Co.'s unionized security guards say they are being forced to swallow major concessions or face replacement by lower-paid guards provided by an outside contractor.

The 140 members of the Raytheon Guard Association Tuesday rejected the company's latest contract proposal by a 2-to-1 ratio, said president Chuck Robichau. The union was prepared to accept a two-year wage freeze and give back paid lunch hours and overtime on weekends since other unionized Raytheon workers accepted similar concessions a few years ago, he said.

But the Lexington-based company went too far, the guards said, by demanding that they also give up a week's vacation and by refusing to match pension funding levels of other Raytheon unions.

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