Honeywell is using its corporate power and wealth to punish working families in South Bend Indiana and Green Island New York.
Honeywell locked out hundreds of UAW Local 9 and Local 1508 workers in May after the workers voted to reject the latest company concession demands on a new labor contract.
The union had agreed to keep working while negotiations continued but the company locked them at a time of record profits for Honeywell.
The UAW says the Honeywell demand would have virtually gutted the contract. Adam Clevenger is one of the locked out UAW Local 9 workers.
[Adam Clevenger]: "Decided they wanted to raise our insurance premium, raise our deductible 400%, cut our pension off. Freeze that. They didn't want to set a fixed rate for our insurance over the next five years of the contract.
They wanted the option to remove spouses in 2018. We've got people with cancers, we've people who have children that need treatment. We've got veterans with PTSD.
We've got a lot of people that relied on the quality insurance they had. And what they want to offer now is gonna just put a burden on those people and what they've worked for all these years."
Susan Brennan of UAW Local 1508 is also locked out by Honeywell . She says the lockout came suddenly.
[Susan Brennan]: "It was such an emotional experience. It was devastating. It was the scariest thing I've ever been through."
Honeywell is paying for scab workers and an anti-union company called Strom Engineering to try to bust the union during the lockout.
Locked out worker Tim Vogt says UAW workers had to endure these union-busters shadowing them on their jobs before the lockout.
[Tim Vogt]: "People knew what they were there for. They knew that somebody was there to possibly take their job."
Adam Clevenger says despite the real pain being inflicted on working families by Honeywell's lockout, the UAW workers are determined to keep fighting for a fair contract.
[Adam Clevenger]: "Their lockout unified us in a way we haven't been unified in a very long time around here. And we're gonna continue to work to fight for the rights of the workers and the benefits of these workers."