By Doug Cunningham

By voting to strike rather than accept concessions Harley-Davidson workers in York, Pennsylvania won a wage increase without having to pay any health insurance premiums. Wage rates for new hires will stay the same instead of being lower as Harley had demanded. Members of the International Association of Machinists have voted to ratify the tentative agreement. The IAM’s Tom Boger says this contract agreement is much better than the company proposal that was rejected by the workers. The York plant’s production was stopped for three weeks when Harley locked out the workers after they rejected concessions.