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LiberalArkie

(15,728 posts)
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 04:50 PM Aug 2015

Pittsburgh Company Looks for Scabs to Work 84 Hours a Week During Steelworker Lockout

http://www.alternet.org/labor/pittsburgh-company-looks-scabs-work-84-hours-week-during-steelworker-lockout


In Pittsburgh, the firm Allegheny Technologies has been involved in a labor dispute with United Steelworkers that has let to 2,000 members being locked out over the course of this month.

As Sean Kitchen discovered, the company Storm Engineering, which finds scab workers to break strikes, has placed an ad on Craigslist looking for workers to work 84-hour-week during the lockout:



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Pittsburgh Company Looks for Scabs to Work 84 Hours a Week During Steelworker Lockout (Original Post) LiberalArkie Aug 2015 OP
Fuck scabs. Brickbat Aug 2015 #1
no. fuck the corporations that profit from pitting worker against worker magical thyme Aug 2015 #3
Thanks, I know what scabs are. Brickbat Aug 2015 #4
wow. just wow. magical thyme Aug 2015 #5
Won't somebody please think of the scabs? Brickbat Aug 2015 #6
Saddest fact about scabs... Lancero Aug 2015 #7
Bastards LiberalEsto Aug 2015 #2
 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
3. no. fuck the corporations that profit from pitting worker against worker
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 05:33 PM
Aug 2015

So-called "scabs" are human beings -- workers desperate to support themselves and their families.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
4. Thanks, I know what scabs are.
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 05:59 PM
Aug 2015

Fuck 'em.

ETA: Believe me, I have plenty of contempt for companies that hire scabs as well.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
5. wow. just wow.
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 06:03 PM
Aug 2015

I guess those fucking scabs should just take their families and go starve under a bridge.

Lancero

(3,011 posts)
7. Saddest fact about scabs...
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 06:21 PM
Aug 2015

Is that the corporations are playing people like fiddles with em. Playing to their emotions - "if I don't give this person work, his entire family will starve!"

What about the ones the scabs are replacing? Hmm, no care for their familes? No concern that they might end up under a bridge? Or do they and their familes deserve what happens to them for daring to be apart of a union?

With as supportive as people are of anti-union tactics, is it any suprise that unions are slowing dying off?

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