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Article: A conversation with Jo Keyser Wenatchee Aluminum Trades Council president.(Interview)
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- Wenatchee Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Six months into the job and Jo Keyser, president of the Wenatchee Aluminum Trades Council, was thrust into the spotlight.
Closed for three years due to exorbitant power rates, Alcoa management decided in May that it would restart the Wenatchee Works plant if its workers could help lower production costs by renegotiating their current contract.
To do this, Alcoa management and the plant's 319 union workers would have to agree to changes to an existing labor contract that had been in place since 2001. But in July, Keyser and the Trades Council, an umbrella group that represents five labor organizations at the plant, rejected Alcoa's "best, last and final" ...