East Blue Hills Cat Litter Miners Still On Strike - Union Wants Higher Wages - Bosses Want Higher Profits (Boson Workers) 29 Dec 2019

Boson, Massachusetts: The strike by East Blue Hills National Union of Miners Local 19 entered the eleventh week without an end in sight.  Workers voted to strike just before Halloween and brought a festive air to the first weeks picket lines with miners kids joining in their Halloween costumes.  But now the cold winds are blowing down off Big Blue and the strikers have turned bitter.



"The company treats us like cave men," said John England, a spokesman for the union.  "We're like the 'cat's paw' that is supposed to scrap this material out of the mountain with minimal thought or reward. Just as cats have claws as their only weapon, workers have strikes as our most powerful weapon."

The workers are mining bentonite clay used in some kinds of cat litter. 




The company spokesman said that the company offers wages that are well above minimum wage and offers health insurance that meets all the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.  "Our workers get some of the highest wages in the area.  The are the highest paid miners in Massachusetts."

The union spokesman said, "We are the only miners in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We want higher wages.  If we don't get a pay raise will not go back to work and we will block the entrances and exits so no trucks or product get through."





Clumping clay litter is usually made from bentonite clay, quartz, and diatomaceous earth. Bentonite cat litter has many advantages and disadvantages.


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