[Timesink]

So basically they just screwed themselves out of a jobs over a cut of $1.50 cut?

Yup. To put this into perspective (it's even more pathetic than you think): The average wage at that plant is $16/hr. And Forbes magazine determined that Huntington, West Virginia, is the second-cheapest city in the entire United States in which to live.

[Gaelic]

And they vote for Sen Byrd

[Concentrate]

Sixteen dollars an hour = $33,280 per year. In a really cheap city you can buy a house for that much. Houses in this area are 4X my annual salary. Although 10 years ago, they were only 2.5X my then salary, approximately.