Rejection of contract spurs lockout

By: Allison Gatlin - El Dorado News-Times

A Union County deputy stands guard behind a barrier surrounding the Milbank Manufacturing Company, 195 Prescolite Drive, after the company locked out union employees when their contract expired at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday. The employees are members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker...

Unionized employees of Milbank Manufacturing were stunned Thursday morning to discover they’d been locked out of the facility pending the ratification of a contract in lieu of a three-year agreement that expired at midnight on Wednesday.

Negotiations have been under way since Jan...

Published: 02/08/2013