Chula Vista

Striking machinists at Rohr Industry plants in Chula Vista and Riverside will receive their final paychecks today and Friday. About 2,300 union members at the Chula Vista plant walked off their jobs one minute after their contract with Rohr expired at midnight Sunday. Company officials announced that strikers could pick up their wages at Building 28 between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. today and Friday.

Tom Hurd, Machinists Local 755 business representative, and Dick Dalton, spokesman for the aerospace company, both said that their negotiators would be willing to meet with the other side, but neither planned to initiate further contract talks.

Federal Mediation Service Commissioner Clinton Brame said Wednesday that “the situation is status quo,” with no talks scheduled or likely to be scheduled until one or both sides “indicated there was the possibility of movement.”

The company presented its final offer to the union negotiators Saturday and union members voted to reject the offer by a wide margin Sunday.

No disturbances were reported at either the Chula Vista or Riverside facilities Wednesday, and company officials said that terms of restraining orders obtained against strikers in both cities had been met. The court orders limited the number of picketers and kept other strikers at a distance from the plants’ gates.