New Mercury Marine vote slated

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Janesville Gazette, Janesville, WI

By Associated Press

FOND DU LAC — The union at Mercury Marine says there will be another vote on a package of wage and benefit concessions the company says it needs to keep 850 jobs from moving to Oklahoma.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said the vote will be on Thursday and Friday.

Union spokesman Mike King says company executives and union leaders met Tuesday and prepared what he called a supplement with some clarifications regarding the package of concessions.

The union has said that on Aug. 23 it overwhelmingly rejected the deal the company called its best and last offer to keep the jobs from moving to a nonunion plant in Stillwater, Okla. A second, last-minute vote took place after the deadline expired at midnight Saturday, and the results were never tabulated.

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