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July 21, 2007 The workers provide high performance industrial vacuum services to manufacturing, water/waste water, utility, municipal, rail and roofing companies in the Midwest. Tom Benvenuto and Mike Gurich, who are construction business agents for Local 200, and Werner Holzwarth, an organizer for the local, were very instrumental in this successful organizing campaign.
The new agreement offers first-time benefits, including:
Tom Millonzi, the Milwaukee-based local’s Secretary-Treasurer, credits the hard work and the efforts by the members, who came in after their physically grueling workday to get their first union contract completed. “The workers’ determination and cohesiveness sent a strong message to the company, which helped make both the organizing drive and contract negotiations process go quite smoothly,” Benvenuto said. “With this new contract, our members can now earn a better living for their families and plan for a brighter future.”
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Earlier this month, 13 workers
at the Great Lakes Power Vac LLC facility in Milwaukee recently voted in favor
of joining Local 200 by a 10-3 margin.
Shortly after the workers
became Teamsters, they ratified a contract Benvenuto and Gurich had negotiated on
their behalf that provides a strong, comprehensive package never offered before
at the company.
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