Posted on 12/07/2022 5:26:59 AM PST by Eleutheria5
If the Federal government can stomp on collective bargaining as in the railroad strike, a private company can do the same. Seems fair.
However, when the remaining janitors in the SEIU Local 87 union called a strike on Monday...
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SEIU is another tentacle of the Dem power base. They struck to damage Twitter because it is the mission of the leftists to destroy Twitter.
Shades of Ronald Reagan.
You're a mean one, Mr. Musk.
The timing of your strike was yours (or your union's), not Musk's.
And we're calling it "Christmas" again? Any other year you would go out of your way to avoid using that word. "Xmas", "The Holidays", "Winter Solstice" ... anything but Christmas.
Guess it's acceptable when you're looking for sympathy.
SEIU is among the biggest group of union THUGS since the Teamsters. An Indiana business owner had them follow his janitorial business all over the world, to the point where the SEUI contacted local militants in the Middle East to actually THREATEN his business over there.
https://www.amazon.com/Devil-My-Doorstep-Protecting-Employee/dp/0984145702
Not quite the same as Reagan. The Air Traffic Controllers were not legally allowed to strike, but they did it anyway.
I am not sure what this contract was, but I feel relatively sure that Musk knew he could cancel the contract, if they weren’t actually cleaning his building.
lol Musk showing us how its done :)
love it
Union issues would be between the workers and the company that employs them, which is not Twitter. Twitter pays the company providing the workers, in this situation they wouldn’t get a paycheck from Twitter. The headline about firing janitors isn’t correct. The company couldn’t fulfill the contract and the contract was terminated.
Stupid move. Striking rarely helps either the workers or company. The local UAW for the Peterbilt plant called for a strike several years ago and was on strike for about 18 months, The benefits they were on strike for were heavily outweighed by wages lost during the strike.
It was finally settled, but a little more than two years later they called for another strike. This time Peterbilt had had enough so they moved 100% of their production to their other non-union plant in Texas and hired additional workers to handle the increase in production. All the hourly workers in Tennessee we out of a good-paying job permanently.
They should have waited until AFTER Christmas, if that’s an ‘issue’. At this point, their troubles are self-inflicted. I suspect they didn’t think Musk would fire them & terminate the contract .... but he has a reputation for not putting up with “stuff”.
From article:
They are suing for severance packages that were promised BEFORE Musk’s acquisition of Twitter but which were not delivered to the fired employees.
Should be an interesting lawsuit.
Therefore, Musk didn't fire the workers. He simply canceled the contract for cause.
Cry me a river.
“The SEIU, democrat thugs on call.”
Yes, like Obama’s Acorn thugs.
“These people were just pawns to the union who called a strike before Christmas.”
So the Union thug leaders could tell the press they were fired 3 weeks before Christmas.
LOL!
Yeah--one thing the globalists do not understand is that when your labor market goes global, like they want, your union power evaporates.
They gotta choose, and I believe they chose poorly.
That's it in a nutshell. Anything else is trivial.
Would this be considered a ‘with cause’ firing? If so, no unemployment.
But, the union is sitting on a pile of money - they need to cough it up for them.
Yep- they were put on the front line to see if they would really be shot at. Now the union knows to not let their higher dues paying members strike. They probably won’t even think twice about the 50-60 janitors out of work.
It is probably a function of supply and demand. Millions of people. Money chasing goods. Not enough housing. Goods have to be contstantly shipped there. There are other factors.
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