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Union Workers at Wilsonville, Ore., Xerox Plant Reject First Proposed Contract.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2000 by Sickinger, Ted

Aug. 30--Employees at Xerox's color printer operation in Wilsonville on Monday rejected their first proposed union contract since agreeing in April to be represented by the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees.

Unite represents 169 employees at the plant, which Xerox bought from Tektronix last year. All of Xerox's manufacturing sites have Unite representation, totaling about 6,100 of its 55,000 U.S. employees.

At the Wilsonville plant, 85 employees voted against the proposal and 55 voted in favor, union officials said. Some members didn't vote.

Ratification of the contract required agreement by at least 51 percent of the employees represented by the union.

The vote was a disappointment for state labor officials,...

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