Maytag Workers Strike, Shutting Down Plants
From Associated Press
Maytag Corp.’s plants shut down as union workers who make the company’s high-end washers and dryers walked off the job.
Members of United Auto Workers Local 997 were planning to meet shortly after the strike began.
A contract covering more than 1,500 Maytag production workers in Newton, Iowa, where Maytag is based, expired at midnight May 31, but the contract was extended through Wednesday night. After that deadline passed, talks on a new contract broke down.
