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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowHundreds of workers have gone on strike at a Terre Haute factory after union officials say members overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer.
Strikers started a picket line yesterday outside the Bemis Co. plant, which mostly makes packaging for the food industry.
The plant opened 1956 and has about 740 union workers and between 150 and 200 salaried workers.
Workers Unite Here local vice president Noel Beasley said members objected to the company’s proposals for greater use of temporary employees and that it be allowed to make insurance changes at any time.
Bemis spokeswoman Kristi Pavletich said the Neenah, Wis.-based company has contingency plans in order to meet the needs of its customers. She said she did not know whether a contract resolution could be reached soon.
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