{"id":16171,"date":"2017-06-09T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T11:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/?p=16171"},"modified":"2017-06-08T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:58:27","slug":"strike-next-step-if-negotiation-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=16171","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Strike\u2019 next step if negotiation talks fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-09-Union-Protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16172\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-09-Union-Protest.jpg\" alt=\"2017-06-09-Union-Protest\" width=\"496\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-09-Union-Protest.jpg 496w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-09-Union-Protest-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ongoing negotiations between Georgia-Pacific\u2019s Foley Cellulose mill and United Steel Workers (UWS) Local 1192 are \u201cgetting down to the brass tacks,\u201d Union President Howard Pickels said Wednesday while warning of a possible workers\u2019 strike on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been negotiating with GP since March 2016. The proposal the company has made thus far is not close to where we want to be. We have been actively bargaining with them, but the company hasn\u2019t been making much movement. We have made many concessions and they wouldn\u2019t accept that,\u201d Pickels, who has led the union since 2004, said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHOTO:<\/strong> <em>Union members took their contract negotiation issues public Wednesday by posting signs outside the union hall located at the corner of Old Dixie Highway and Plantation Road.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ongoing negotiations between Georgia-Pacific\u2019s Foley Cellulose mill and United Steel Workers (UWS) Local 1192 are \u201cgetting down to the brass tacks,\u201d Union President Howard Pickels said Wednesday while warning of a possible workers\u2019 strike on the horizon. \u201cWe have been negotiating with GP since March 2016. The proposal the company has made thus far is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[466,301,883],"class_list":["post-16171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-foley-cellulose-mill","tag-georgia-pacific","tag-united-steel-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16173,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171\/revisions\/16173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}