SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Union workers at Kohler Company have rejected the company’s latest contract offer and overwhelmingly approved a strike. United Auto Workers Local 833 announced the vote results Sunday. The union says paper balloting showed 94 percent of workers favor a strike. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports it would be the company’s first strike since 1983. Workers have taken issue with what they call an inadequate pay increase, higher health care costs and the continuation of a two-tier wage scale that pays newer employees less. The company has said its last contract offer would’ve raised the average wage for lower tier workers to above $17 an hour. A strike could idle about 2,100 production employees at a plumbing-ware foundry in the Village of Kohler and at a generator plant near Sheboygan.
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