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COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
MARYSVILLE, Ohio _ If the United Auto Workers hopes to organize Honda's four automotive plants in central Ohio, the union has to persuade skeptics like Kirk Rounds.
The 48-year-old assembly worker grew up in a union household in Marysville and belonged to a union in a job he held before he started working at Honda 10 years ago. But he's happy at Honda, and doesn't see that joining the UAW is worth risking what he might lose in negotiations or a strike.
"It gets cold out there," Rounds says. "Right now, I'm happy with what I've got. When I came to Honda, the first thing I got was a pay raise, which was fantastic. I received benefits I'd never seen before.
"Sure there's a chance we could go forward, but there's also another chance you could go backwards, too," with a union. "When you get to my age, it's hard to go out and find a job."
Such doubts...
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