Unions have done such great work for the country.
Now we just bail them out...And the Unions keep smiling. Thank you Obama....You friggin’ communist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_steel_strike
For an encore, Truman attempted to nationalize and seize the steel industry. How that bolshevik got an aircraft carrier named after him is beyond me.
yeah, unions are a cancer, the thing of it is, there are other jobs, supposedly. If you don’t want what is offered get out and let someone else work. I think the NFL referees are crying because they were so stupid. They are obviously replaceable.
OMG!!! And what did the Libs in Ttuman’s party say about this at the time, as the railroads were private, and the railroad workers were not government employees, and by law were not banned from striking, yet Truman acted?
Why ask?
Well, we know the kinds of things they said (and continue to believe) when Reagan fired the striking member’s of PATCO, the Flight Controller’s union - (31 years after Truman’s actions on the railroads) - whose members were Federal government employees (employees of the FAA) and banned by Federal law from striking.
Railroad featherbedding was rampant in those days. Trains regularly had 5 man crews, even if they were only pulling as few as 5-10 cars. (Why did a diesel engine require a fireman, other than as a legacy union slot from the steam engine days?)
Now as few as 2 crewmen handle 100 car trains without difficulty. Anyone seen a caboose lately?
Railroad union luddites were hard to get rid of but doing so saved the American rail system.
it would also make sense since the unions were so heavily infultrated by communists in in the 50’s. It would make sense that this was a counterstrike.
Remember the USSR was super involved in all the peacenik groups.