WORKERS AT an International Paper factory in Delaware, Ohio are on strike against the company’s demand of unlimited overtime for up to 84 hours a week: 12 hours a day for all seven days. A FEW days into the strike International Paper was able to get an injunction limiting the number of workers who can picket in front of the entrances to the factory and warehouse to three. As they did in the recent Verizon strike on the East Coast and countless other strike, police have enforced this injunction, preventing workers from confronting and slowing down scabs on their way into the factory.
After winning the injunction, company managers further harassed their striking employees by frequently calling the police on picketers, although workers reported that this tactic mainly succeeded in getting the cops annoyed at the company for continually calling them over nothing.
The striking workers’ spirits are still high even as their strike approaches two months. Nearby unions and community members often deliver food and beverages to show their support.
This is a Fortune 500 company–one of the largest paper companies in the world.
— source socialistworker.org