Truth is, the Steelworkers thought they had the hammer, and could get what they wanted by whipsaw strikes, slowdowns, etc.. in the end, they learned the hard way that the business always has the ultimate trump card of ceasing operations.
Yes.
Now actual communists, are in charge of the entire factory.
The largest (communist) country in the entire world.
Too bad the consumer never benefited from all of the cheap crappy steel dumped in the USA. The middle men got all the marginal “savings” and the taxpayer was left with the bill.
Unions suck. Not having a domestic steel industry sucks even more.
Adding to your comments about some Steelworkers union headquarters showing Marxist slogans, Staughton Lynd is also a Marxist. He showed his true colors went he went to Hanoi in 1965 with traitor Tom Hayden and Communist Party theoretician Herbert Aptheker, a lifelong Stalinist, to support communist aggression against South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
At least Lynd had some feelings for the working people. Aptheker did whatever Moscow told him to do or say, while Hayden became the “new” American communist, a guy, who according to his friend named Gardner, wanted to be the American “Stalin”.
One of the reasons wanted Americans to buy American steel despite the high labor costs for producing it (thanks to the Unions), was to keep their hold on the working class as a way of promoting “socialism” and to gain political allies in the Democrat Party.
Look what it cost the honest working guy. Perhaps Lynd should have studied American free enterprise and capitalism instead of Marxism. He would have seen that it would have been better for the people he wanted to help, not harm
Old reds never die. They just smell that way.
He could’ve been a contender.
See Hostess Bakeries.
-PJ