Laid-Off Bayer HealthCare Workers Still Fighting for Their Jobs

When 414 workers at Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals vote on a new contract on today, Anita Holloway won’t be among them. Holloway worked in janitorial services at Bayer Healthcare on Dwight Way for three years, earning $22.65 an hour. Then in August 2010, she and 28 other union members were laid off, with the faint promise of being rehired when times got better. Many of those workers decided to take severance and separate themselves from the company. But Holloway didn’t and has been hoping that she might get “recalled,” a technical term used in the contract between Bayer and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents the employees.