Some 2700 striking employees of Hershey Foods Corp. have agreed to resume talks with the company to attempt to resolve their dispute.
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The disagreement focuses on health care costs, and came to a head on 24 April, since when workers have been on strike and two of the company’s production facilities have been at a standstill.
Union members are planning to picket an amusement park owned by the company to raise the profile of the issue among the general public. “I know for a fact they don’t want us to be out here in the summer,” one striking worker, John Atwood, picketing outside the Chocolate Avenue plant is reported as saying yesterday [Thursday].
