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Workers at Pratt and Whitney across Connecticut voted to reject the company’s recent union contract offer, saying the company failed to listen to worker’s demands.
Pratt & Whitney's jet engine development began in 1944. Its first model was licensed from Rolls-Royce and was called the Nene, although it later became known as the J42 Turbo-Wasp. Further ...
For 100 years, Pratt and Whitney – an aircraft engine manufacturer has been transforming military and commercial aviation with the R-1340 Wasp engine that is still in use today. The company was ...
According to Defense News, workers on the picket line said they are afraid Pratt & Whitney will move jobs out of the state to Georgia, and that is why they are pressing for guarantees of job security.
Paul Dickes, the outgoing chief union safety representative at Pratt & Whitney, oversaw the last strike in 2001 and started shortly after the 1985 strike. He’s retiring next month after 39 years ...
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Union officials said over 3,000 members of Machinist (IAM) Locals 700 and 1746 are on strike at Pratt & Whitney’s Middletown and East Hartford plants.
About 3,000 labor union members went on strike early Monday at jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut, as negotiations over wages, retirement benefits and job security broke down.
Pratt & Whitney has written a letter to striking machinists laying out the terms of what it says is its “last, best and final offer” in contract negotiations. The letter (shown below) from ...