Thank the few hundred employees for standing up for the working class. The large international corporations are trying to dictate labor policy around the world and are getting closer each and every day. More and more large corporations are making if extremely hard for the average American family ability to feed, cloth, house, and obtain the education goals of parents. The large Corporations would like a working class of Part-Time Employee making minimum/low wages while having the government (taxpayer) pick up the tab.
Strongly support the workers for standing up for the working class, if they don't in a few years we will all be working 2 Part Time jobs.
I'm retired from a career spent almost entirely in exempt, professional, and management positions, mostly in Fortune 100 corporations. I support the union 100%! It's criminal what has been done to organized labor in this country for the past 30 years! It's insane that anyone in the Working Class would take management's side in this struggle. I've lived in "the belly of the beast" and the corruption is far greater than most can imagine. The off-shoring of jobs and out-sourcing to a disenfranchised workforce is a slow creep towards slavery, where a worker is counted as 3/5 of a 'person' and without the right to even vote.
polixronis local 13 - 11 years ago
First off nickola thank you for your comment!! Every time a labor issue i.e. strike/picket or lockout the unions are always to blame.In todays day and age people should start opening their eyes to whats really going on with corporate greed! BIG companies are the bullies in the playground that keep pushing and pushing until the little guy (unions) say enough is enough and this is what you get!! solidarity at its best!!!!
Nickola - 11 years ago
The Clerks did go out on strike but they are trying to negotiate & have been without a contract for over two (2) years. The Shippers refuse to remove material from the contract that would guarantee no future out-sourcing of jobs. This is an important issue for ALL of America - to keep jobs in America!!
I agree that they both need to make compromises & settle but the Union is fighting for the greater good of America or they would have taken the pay increases & having their jobs guaranteed for their lifetime a long time ago in the negotiations. Without Unions & what they fight for, we would have working conditions like those in many third-world countries!
Thank the few hundred employees for standing up for the working class. The large international corporations are trying to dictate labor policy around the world and are getting closer each and every day. More and more large corporations are making if extremely hard for the average American family ability to feed, cloth, house, and obtain the education goals of parents. The large Corporations would like a working class of Part-Time Employee making minimum/low wages while having the government (taxpayer) pick up the tab.
Strongly support the workers for standing up for the working class, if they don't in a few years we will all be working 2 Part Time jobs.
I'm retired from a career spent almost entirely in exempt, professional, and management positions, mostly in Fortune 100 corporations. I support the union 100%! It's criminal what has been done to organized labor in this country for the past 30 years! It's insane that anyone in the Working Class would take management's side in this struggle. I've lived in "the belly of the beast" and the corruption is far greater than most can imagine. The off-shoring of jobs and out-sourcing to a disenfranchised workforce is a slow creep towards slavery, where a worker is counted as 3/5 of a 'person' and without the right to even vote.
First off nickola thank you for your comment!! Every time a labor issue i.e. strike/picket or lockout the unions are always to blame.In todays day and age people should start opening their eyes to whats really going on with corporate greed! BIG companies are the bullies in the playground that keep pushing and pushing until the little guy (unions) say enough is enough and this is what you get!! solidarity at its best!!!!
The Clerks did go out on strike but they are trying to negotiate & have been without a contract for over two (2) years. The Shippers refuse to remove material from the contract that would guarantee no future out-sourcing of jobs. This is an important issue for ALL of America - to keep jobs in America!!
I agree that they both need to make compromises & settle but the Union is fighting for the greater good of America or they would have taken the pay increases & having their jobs guaranteed for their lifetime a long time ago in the negotiations. Without Unions & what they fight for, we would have working conditions like those in many third-world countries!