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Fires reported at North Dakota, Minnesota sugar plants
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Posted on 09/10/2011 12:23:29 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Locked-out union workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. are blaming fires at plants in Drayton and in East Grand Forks, Minn., on inexperienced replacement workers hired to take over harvesting duties. Sure, and I'm the queen of England.
5.56mm
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:27:39 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: WOBBLY BOB
I’m a cynic. I think they were caused by fired/laid off union workers, but then what do I know?
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:28:01 PM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: WOBBLY BOB
This is the Union violence demanded by Jimmy Hoffa.
The MSM will never mention it.
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:31:01 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
To: basil
I wonder what union it is. The article didn’t reveal that. Not that it matters that much - they’re all vicious, although some of them really go over the top.
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:31:27 PM PDT
by
livius
To: basil
Union members are locked out, unable to access former work areas... can’t sabotage things they can’t get to.
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:34:06 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Sounds like more union destruction of property. This is beginning to be a pattern.
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:35:17 PM PDT
by
Nepeta
To: WOBBLY BOB
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:37:00 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: WOBBLY BOB
- The union has argued that only their workers have the experience to run the plants.
This may be true, but it may be more cost effective for the company to fix the damage caused by inexperienced workers than to keep this union.
To: Keith in Iowa
Union members are locked out, unable to access former work areas... can’t sabotage things they can’t get to.Strikers are famous for setting little destructive booby traps for the workers who take over after they strike. I thought everyone knew that.
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:39:50 PM PDT
by
catfish1957
(Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Unions would never sabotage the machinery of rich fat-cat owners.
Would they?
To: catfish1957
Lockout has been going on for long enough for anything like that to have surfaced before now.
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:44:06 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: WOBBLY BOB
The owners can likely afford to shut down for long term recovery. 2-3 years of dormant activity at the site would probably kill the community, but it would at least take out the union.
Sometimes you have to resign yourself to rebuilding from ashes.
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posted on
09/10/2011 12:47:11 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Keith in Iowa
“Union members are locked out, unable to access former work areas... can’t sabotage things they can’t get to.”
They simply sabotage things beforehand.
And you and I both know that they did.
To: Keith in Iowa
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posted on
09/10/2011 1:04:03 PM PDT
by
bgill
(There, happy now?)
To: Keith in Iowa
Union members are locked out, unable to access former work areas... can’t sabotage things they can’t get to. Never let facts get in the way of a good rant.
To: bgill
>>>Wanna buy a bridge?
Already own one. Waana buy it?
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posted on
09/10/2011 1:14:00 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: Keith in Iowa
Pioneer Sugar grown and refined right here in Michigan.
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posted on
09/10/2011 1:17:00 PM PDT
by
healy61
To: Da Coyote
>>>And you and I both know that they did.
No, I don’t know that. What I do know is what I posted. The lockout has been going on long enough, and the equipment has been in use for long enough that if there was any tampering, it would have been evident from day one of the lock-out and not surfacing now... it’s likely that any problems now are from inexperienced people operating plants.
I live in Realville - you should visit once in a while.
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posted on
09/10/2011 1:17:45 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: basil
mere coincidence, I’m sure/
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posted on
09/10/2011 1:20:33 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
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