Thursday, June 5, 2008

Finnish Otis workers to stage one-day walkout

About 160 workers of US lift and escalator maker Otis, part of United Technologies, are to stage a walkout between 7am and 4pm on Friday, representatives of three Finnish unions said Thursday.

Markku Haavisto, the chief shop steward at Otis for the Electrical Workers' Union, told the Finnish News Agency that Otis had shown its unwillingness to negotiate over pay and conditions.
The unions added that emergency calls would continue to be responded to and people freed from malfunctioning lifts in places like hospitals and nursing homes.

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