The Region - News from Feb. 22, 1987

Rohr Industries officials and striking machinists will go back to the bargaining table Monday--one week after about 4,500 union members walked off their jobs at Chula Vista and Riverside plants of the aerospace firm. Federal Mediation Service Commissioner Clinton G. Brame called the meeting for 10 a.m. Monday but would not disclose the meeting place except to say that it was in the Riverside area. Dick Dalton, a Rohr spokesman, said that management representatives “hoped that this will be a first step to a speedy and equitable settlement” of contract terms. Machinists Local 755 business representative Tom Hurd said he does not know who asked for resumption of negotiations, “but it sure wasn’t us.” The union members walked out at a minute after midnight Monday.