Union Approves Contract Extension at ISC’s Gramercy Refinery
isc | Jun 09, 2010
Gramercy labor extension signing included: (seated l-r) are George Muller, ISC VP, and Lloyd Kliebert, union president, (standing l-r) are Keith Griffin, HR manager, with union members Kerwin Joseph, Roland Brown, Troy Armont, Janelle Poche and Karen Howard. Raylene Carter, refinery plant manager (far right).
By an overwhelming majority, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local No. 1167-P recently approved a one-year extension of its contract with the Imperial Sugar Company (ISC).
George Muller, ISC vice president of administration, says the original collective bargaining contract would have ended February 1, 2011. With the extension, the contract now will run to February 1, 2012.
Construction is under way on a new state-of-the-art, 3,100-tons-per-day Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR) refinery at Gramercy – a joint venture with Louisiana growers and millers, Cargill and the Imperial Sugar Company.
The contract extension applies to the ISC packaging facility that will be operated adjacent to the LSR refinery.
