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Monday, Sept. 19, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Pillowtex < , s loses case 1 with NLRB a o By Nancy Concelman between the company and union Manchester Herald broke down in May when the , . ' 4 company refused to respond to i-m : The National Labor Relations the union’s bargaining proposals. Board has ruled that the Pillow­ The union filed unfair labor tex Corp., which closed its practice charges against Pillow­ Manchester plant in May, did not tex in early June. bargain in good faith over em­ The N LRB ’s ruling says that ployee benefits with the union Pillowtex did not bargain in good representing the company's faith and refused to supply nearly 100 employees, a union enough financial information on official said today. its decision to close and on The decision could force the disability and pension benefits. company to meet the union’s Madore said. demands on benefits, and other The company also dealt di­ collective bargaining issues, said rectly with employees rather Robert Madore, president of than the union and during bar­ United Workers Local 376, which gaining and offered different represented the workers. He said health and insurance benefits to the state board’s ruling, which Pdrick Flynn/Mtnehwter Herald individual employees than those was announced today, will go put on the bargaining table, TALK TO ME — Nancy Johnson of 31 Cambridge St. 100th anniversary of the Eighth District Fire Department, before an administrative law according to the board’s ruling. judge March 6, 1989. talks to Karen Cronin of 35 Cambridge St., who was More pictures on pages 4, 5 and 10. The board also ruled that N LRB officials could not be Pillowtex refused to negotiate taking pictures, during Sunday’s parade celebrating the reached for comment this with the union over grievances morning. and arbitration, ceased paying The judge could require the union representatives for time Dallas-based company to accept spent negotiating and held job the union’s most recent economic The Big One’ draws fairs without consulting the proposal, Madore said. union. The company could appeal the administrative judge’s ruling, Company officials denied the Madore said. Richard Kerner, unfair labor practice charges. 8th parade vice president of personnel for Local employees learned at the Pillowtex. declined to comment end of April that the company is celebration today. planned to close its 49 Regent St. The union withdrew a request plant and move operations to to block the closing of the plant facilities in and of the century about two weeks ago because it North Carolina. The plant closed “ couldn’t produce a case le­ at the end of May and the building By AAlchele Noble gally,” Madore said. is currently for sale for about $3 Manchester Herald Negotiations over the closing million.

More than 20,000 spectators lined the streets of Manchester Sunday to celebrate the Eighth Haiti coup raises District Fire Department's 100th anniversary parade, the largest and longest Connecticut has seen this year. hopes for reform “ The Big One,” as the event was coined, lasted about Z'h PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti streets. Small groups of people hours and included more than (AP) — Advocates of democratic milled in the streets and traffic 4,000 marchers and an estimated reform expressed hope that Hai­ was light. Television and radio 135 fire departments from Con­ ti’s new military leaders would stations resumed their normal necticut, Massachusetts, Ver­ open a dialogue with the people programming. mont and New York. after ousting Lt. Gen. Henry The airport, which was closed About 45 musical units — iMtar H*rald Namphy, who ran the country for Sunday, was expected to reopen including school bands, military more than two years. today. iiting bands, pipe bands and fife and Brig. Gen. Prosper Avril, the But for the four-month civilian drum corps — marched 1.