Merc union voting on concessions continues Friday
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — Union workers at Mercury Marine continue voting Friday on wage and benefit concessions the boat-engine maker says it needs to keep 850 manufacturing jobs from moving to Oklahoma.
Unofficial reports say several hundred workers voted Thursday.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local 1947, has scheduled voting to continue at the union hall near downtown Fond du Lac until 6 p.m.
Last month, the union said workers overwhelmingly rejected the deal that freezes wages for seven years, boosts health care costs, changes work rules and cuts pay 30 percent for new hires and laid off union members called back.
The company said the offer expired at midnight Saturday before a second vote was finished. The two sides then worked out details for the vote wrapping up Friday.

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