A St. Louis mail-order drug-distributor announced, Oct. 8, that it will close a warehouse facility on Marshall Lane in Bensalem, Pa. on Dec. 16 and the union which represents the workers has responded by basically saying “Oh Yeah! Better not!”.
The union contract expires Dec. 15.
What was actually reportedly said by union organizer Bill Ragen at a
rally last night in Trevose was “We have to make it more expensive for
them to shut it down than for them to keep it open.”
The company is the quite profitable Express Scripts . The union is a local with Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Losing their jobs will be 365 of its members.
The warehouse and a nearby processing center on Street Road along with a small facility in New Mexico are the only unionized facilities managed by Express Scripts. The future of the Street Road facility is also in doubt.
Express Scripts had sought $8.8 million in concessions from the SEIU but the union only agreed to $8 million.