ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, August 31, 1996 TAG: 9609030011
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JEFF STURGEON STAFF WRITER
A union election proved inconclusive for a Salem cement company's employees, while a group of Clifton Forge telephone workers rejected a contract proposal. A Covington union votes on a contract proposal today.
Drivers and mechanics at Salem Ready Mix Concrete Inc. cast an 8-8 vote late Thursday on whether to affiliate with Teamster Local 171.
That was not enough for the workers to affiliate, but the vote is inconclusive because the National Labor Relations Board must determine if three additional votes - still unknown - should be added to the total. The union argued in its challenge that of the three people who cast them one person was part of management and two did not work in jobs that qualified them to vote.
Unions most often direct vote challenges at those averse to the outcome they seek and, for that reason, it seemed unlikely the investigation would sway the Salem Ready Mix vote in the union's favor.
Meanwhile, employees of the CFW Information Service Inc. long-distance information center in Clifton Forge have rejected a first contract offer from the company, said Glenn Anglin, an official with Local 437 of the United Paperworkers International Union, in a release Friday.
In a third union matter, a vote is scheduled today on a six-year contract for employees of Westvaco's paper-coating operation at Low Moor that produces packaging material, said Fred Feazell, president of Local 490 of the United Paperworkers International Union.
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