Health Insurance Cut For Henkel Aerospace Employees

EAST BAY, CA -- Employees at an East Bay company are protesting Tuesday after they said it cancelled their health insurance.

Eighty production workers from Henkel Aerospace Industrial Bay Point, who have been on strike since Oct. 16, said the German-owned company cancelled their health insurance.

“It is not surprising – and completely in line with Henkel’s callous disregard for worker safety – that they would cancel our health insurance in an attempt to scare us back to into unsafe jobs," said Will Morris, Henkel production worker who is also a union member for Machinists Local 1584, in a statement. "Scarier than us losing health insurance is what’s been happening to workers inside the plant: disabling and disfiguring accidents,”

According to the union, a a temporary worker who was a veteran died from a workplace fatality.

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