Posted on 11/17/2012 10:28:20 AM PST by matt04
Labor leaders in Maine say the resilience of the Hostess workers on the picket line at the company’s Biddeford plant, which is in the process of being shut down after the company on Friday said it would liquidate the business, gives them inspiration in the face of what they believe have been ongoing efforts — by politicians, including Gov. Paul LePage, and corporate investors — to reduce union influence.
Bakers’ union officials and their supporters say also that the demise of Hostess Brands Inc., which failed to convince striking workers to return to their jobs, is a warning sign for corporate investors seeking to squeeze more profits out of the working class.
“Unions have been losing power for years,” said Ken Rumney, a striking worker outside of the Hostess plant in Biddeford on Friday. “This is an exceptional case. If Hostess had been allowed to get away with what they’d been trying to do, other corporations would have lined up to try the same tactics. Hopefully, this will be an example to other companies not to [try to] break their unions.”
“I think we’re the first ones who have stood up and said, ‘We’re not going to let you get away with it,’” said Sue Tapley, the strike captain on hand Friday morning at the Biddeford plant, which employed nearly 600 people. “You can fight them. You can shut them down.”
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May they continue to show such resolve in the future. Best wishes for future success!
In a few words the lazy bastards are too lazy to work and want to lie around and collect unemployment!!
Just goes to show you that you can’t fix stupid!!
““You can fight them. You can shut them down.””
So the goal is to shut down the company that provides you with a job. Apparently this is considered a victory.
Can people REALLY be that freakin’ stupid?
“I think we’re the first ones who have stood up and said, ‘We’re not going to let you get away with it,’” said Sue Tapley, the strike captain on hand Friday morning at the Biddeford plant, which employed nearly 600 people. “You can fight them. You can shut them down.”
I guess this blithering idiot never read the story of the the goose that laid the golden eggs. Is there any hope remaining if our populace is really this stooopid
So, who is going to feed these OUT OF WORK morons???
Just in case that isn’t a rhetorical question, the answer is you and me re going to feed them. That is unless you are dependent on SS or some other government program in which case I guess it is down to me and the few others who are not dependent on a government check.
Do you think they would be so froggy without 99 weeks of unemployment insurance, food stamps, free phones, subsidized heat, rent, child care, and etc.?
Their “resolve” will pay their bills I’m sure. Or is their “the combustion”.
This reminds me of the Braniff Airways failure. After they shutdown operations, they had an offer that would have put them back to work.
BUT . . . . . . . . .
In order for them to go back to work, the pilots would have had to take pay cuts and have fewer flights per month than that to which they were accustomed.
The pilots stood their ground and said no. Apparently, unemployment paid them much better than sitting in the captain’s seat of a Boeing 727, 737, or 707.
The takeaway from all of this is that the union mentality still lives and, like a black hole, sucks up reason, intelligence and compromise and replaces it with ignorance and stupidity!!
Agree. This Union hasn’t shown that they care about any other employee other than “the Union”. Same line of thinking as the Dem Party/Libs. “Gimme mine, to hell with you”.
Evedently they do not realize the owners of the company AND THE UNION LEADERS will not lose anything. It’s really only they the workers that will suffer. Idiots!
There now the statement is corrected.
Yeah, the union’s got them right where they want them. LOL!
Can the 5,000 collect unemployment if the company closes while they are out on strike???
Sure pal. It's an example to your MEMBERSHIP of how much you care about them and their families.
You and I via redistribution.
Unemployment benefits won’t come anywhere near replacing union pay.
Suckers.
Orwellian.
Sadly the answer is yes.
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