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Nut strike cracks after 13 years
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| 3-23-05
Posted on 03/23/2005 7:53:34 AM PST by TXBSAFH
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:53:35 AM PST
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TXBSAFH
To: TXBSAFH
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:54:16 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: TXBSAFH
They're back to working for peanuts.
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:55:15 AM PST
by
Borges
To: TXBSAFH
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:55:16 AM PST
by
SmithL
(Terrorists are in a quagmire)
To: TXBSAFH
Outsourcing is not the problem in the manufacturing/service industries today.
Unions are.
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:55:37 AM PST
by
RushCrush
(Hitler was a gun-banning, abortion-supporting, business-regulating, Christmas-hating, vegetarian.)
To: TXBSAFH
Like Kramer and the Bagel Store!
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:55:50 AM PST
by
Hildy
To: TXBSAFH
thanks, for the report...I prefer honey-roasted peanuts, myself.
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:56:57 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
The union is who got roasted.
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:57:58 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: TXBSAFH
I can't help wondering why Diamond capitulated. It's like going backwards. What's in it for them other than another confrontation 5 years down the road. Or sooner.
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posted on
03/23/2005 7:58:56 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: Hildy
That was a great episode.
Happy Festivus!!!
To: TXBSAFH
"I think it was worth it in that we did accomplish something," said the union. Yeah, right. Especially since: The company has also filled most of their old positions, or replaced them with automated processes.
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posted on
03/23/2005 8:00:09 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: TXBSAFH
Who has been paying union dues all these years to keep the union bosses fat? How has the union met it's financial obligations to the neocommunists and democrats? What role have illegal Mexicans criminal aliens played in this wonderful union victory?
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posted on
03/23/2005 8:01:24 AM PST
by
Tacis
( SEAL THE FRIGGEN BORDER!!!)
To: TXBSAFH
"I think it was worth it in that we did accomplish something," said the union.
wait, did he really say that...oh yeah, he did..
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posted on
03/23/2005 8:01:34 AM PST
by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
To: TXBSAFH
please note that the union bosses all got a paycheck during the last 13 years....what motivation did they have to settle?
To: TXBSAFH
Only a striking Democrat union member could be THIS stupid....and FEEL GOOD...
It's going to be fun, watching our Kalifornicate Teacher's Union spend their Union Dues, fighting the Governator...
Hope this leads to outlawing unions for "civil servants"...
Semper Fi
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posted on
03/23/2005 8:02:07 AM PST
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: TXBSAFH
"However, most of the workers have now found jobs elsewhere, and the union admits they are unlikely to return."
Well, DUH!! How many people do you know who would sit on a picket line for 13 years???!!!
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posted on
03/23/2005 8:02:26 AM PST
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: TXBSAFH
"I think it was worth it in that we did accomplish something," said the union. 14 years without a job, and in the mean time most of the jobs have been replaced by automation equipment.. but hey they accomplished something... who the hell would pay these jokers dues?
To: TXBSAFH
Well, that should make the union heads start dancing the Macadamia.
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posted on
03/23/2005 8:03:32 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
To: TXBSAFH
Teamsters Local 601 union went on strike at the Diamond of California plant in September 1991 in a dispute over pay I remember that.
Labor leaders claimed employees were working for peanuts.
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posted on
03/23/2005 8:03:32 AM PST
by
KidGlock
(Get in the pit and try to love some one)
To: TXBSAFH
the best part "...Both parties now realize that we have to work together." I'm still laughing.
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