JOIN US! TEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 TO RALLY AGAINST CERTAINTEED THURSDAY AT 3:30PM in NORWOOD

(BOSTON) – Teamsters Local 25 members and supporters will hold a rally at the CertainTeed Corporation, on Thursday, January 5, at 3:30pm, at the corporation's work site located at 1077 Pleasant Street in Norwood.

After several rounds of negotiations, Teamsters Local 25 was left no option but to strike and we've been on the picket line since December 19, holding around the clock pickets through the holidays and into the new year. The company – a maker of roofing products and asphalt shingles – has yet to agree to come back to the negotiating table and so the strike continues.

At stake is the health and welfare of our 90 members. CertainTeed wants to drastically reduce the amount of health insurance they pay and, in return, give employees a one-time $1,000 bonus. These latest cuts come on top of other concessions CertainTeed workers have made in the past.

CertainTeed, based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, is a subsidiary of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain of Paris. The French company acquired the locally owned Bird Corporation in 1998 and since then workers have slowly seen the stark differences between a local company who cares about its employees and a conglomerate only concerned with the bottom line.

Please join us on Thursday. Today it is CertainTeed. Tomorrow it could be your company.