Sorry, folks. I really don't see how society benefits from work cessations resulting from feuds between management and workers.
It's nothing but a waste.
1 posted on
10/03/2006 4:54:02 AM PDT by
Brilliant
To: Brilliant
It appears they are staying open with scabs and the Union is fighting a losing battle.
Better a job with some benefits than no job at all.
2 posted on
10/03/2006 5:00:21 AM PDT by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Brilliant
The gravy train for union leaders "thugs" is coming to an end.
Government unions and the NEA "National Extortion Agency" are the only hope for a gravy train by union leaders "thugs".
3 posted on
10/03/2006 5:09:31 AM PDT by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: Brilliant
AK Steel locked out more than 2,500 hourly production and maintenance workers when their contract expired at midnight, Feb. 28. It has continued to run the mill with about 1,800 replacement workers and salaried personnel. Retirements and resignations have brought the number of union workers down to about 1,900. I have seen this first hand also - it is amazing the amount of productivity improvement when a union goes out on strike and management with replacement workers goes to work...
7 posted on
10/03/2006 5:37:59 AM PDT by
2banana
To: Brilliant
AK Steel locked out more than 2,500 hourly production and maintenance workers when their contract expired at midnight, Feb. 28. It has continued to run the mill with about 1,800 replacement workers and salaried personnel. Retirements and resignations have brought the number of union workers down to about 1,900. I have seen this first hand also - it is amazing the amount of productivity improvement when a union goes out on strike and management with replacement workers goes to work...
8 posted on
10/03/2006 5:38:22 AM PDT by
2banana
To: Brilliant
and the city government faces cutbacks in police and firefighters.Always cut muscle, never cut fat. Are those employees really the first item on the city budget to cut?
10 posted on
10/03/2006 5:58:07 AM PDT by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: Brilliant
THERE's THE TICKET!
increase city taxes! make more money!
NO, this will insure that NO ONE shops in this town anymore.
Good grief, where are people's senses!
This town is doomed. I pity the citizens.
The whole world has gone 'round the bend if they think raising taxes fixes ANYTHING like this.
A local Steel mill here has been running without a contract for almost a year I think - but there has been no strike.
17 posted on
10/03/2006 7:51:05 AM PDT by
IOWAfan
(without caffeine I'd have no personality at all)
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