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As workers from Huhtamaki plants around the world, from New Zealand to Germany, continue to demonstrate their support for their colleagues in California, the U.S. Steelworkers have lodged a charge against the company.

The charge under the National Labor Act is that the company is engaging in unfair labor practices by changing their policy to ban solicitation.

In a letter to the company the workers state “Management has repeatedly spied on workers who support making change, both in the break room and discussions on the shop floor; management has forced us to sit in captive audience meetings where management representatives attempt to persuade us against supporting any union activity; management has posted a policy prohibiting us from speaking about or passing out materials supporting change at Huhtamaki, and; management has handed us and mailed us anti-union literature to our homes.”

Andy Snoddy Head of UNI Graphical & Packaging said “I would have expected better from a respected Finnish company. I fully support the workers' demands that the company enter into negotiations and abandon their confrontational union busting tactics.”