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Olin calls workers' bluff: Ammo plant to Mississippi [Union jobs head south!]
STLToday.com ^ | Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 | Steve Giegerich

Posted on 11/05/2010 7:37:52 AM PDT by Arcy

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To: RightOnTheBorder

The article states that the only way the company could remain competitive in Illinois was to offset the anti-competitiveness of the state through cuts in their workers pay and benefits.

And that is basically the reaping of the whirlwind for all the years of stupidity that the Illinois voter has inflicted upon themselves.


41 posted on 11/05/2010 9:13:41 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Arcy

With all of Harry Reid’s so-called clout, why didn’t those jobs come to Nevada, huh Harry?


42 posted on 11/05/2010 9:14:15 AM PDT by UncommonJudge
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To: RightOnTheBorder
The article states that the only way the company could remain competitive in Illinois was to offset the anti-competitiveness of the state through cuts in their workers pay and benefits.

And that is basically the reaping of the whirlwind for all the years of stupidity that the Illinois voter has inflicted upon themselves.

43 posted on 11/05/2010 9:14:22 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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The company, they maintained, had no intention of following through on its threat to move their jobs.

Bad assumption. Oh well, suffer the consequences idiots. They are probably begging for a redo right now.

We didn't mean it!
We were just kidding!
LOL!
44 posted on 11/05/2010 9:18:16 AM PDT by ZX12R (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

I’m no labor lawyer, but if what you suggest is done, the present union could sue for major damages and the NLRB, who is fully owned and operated by the unions, but is staffed and funded by the Federal government, as an “Arbiter over labor disputes”, would come down very hard on the company. In essence it is illegal to do what you say. It was tried in the coal fields in southern West Virginia. The result was a war between coal operators and unionizers and eventually the U.S. Army. Socialism won out, and unions have become malignant bullies ever since.
Socialism is a cancer that must be removed, even if it takes off a limb. Unions are a polyp of socialism located in the colon.


45 posted on 11/05/2010 9:44:44 AM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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I don’t think it will take that long for them to leave...the union thugs will be vandalizing and sabotaging the plant!!

How long before rumors start that Olin's ammo is defective? Better they shut down now, take the hit, and get that MS plant up and running ASAP. Probably cheaper than an ad campaign saying "Really, folks, our ammo WON'T blow up your gun!"

46 posted on 11/05/2010 9:56:39 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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"It is not going to be pretty."

LOL, and in an ammunition plant...

47 posted on 11/05/2010 9:58:56 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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These union people are stupid. Companies aren’t bluffing anymore. They need to stay in business, and won’t let the unions kill them like they did the steel and coal industry. To many other states want these corporations to re-locate, and are providing whatever incentives are necessary to make it happen.


48 posted on 11/05/2010 3:52:00 PM PDT by Roklok
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