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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPittsburgh 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-lockoutIn 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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Brickbat
(19,339 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)So-called "scabs" are human beings -- workers desperate to support themselves and their families.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Fuck 'em.
ETA: Believe me, I have plenty of contempt for companies that hire scabs as well.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)I guess those fucking scabs should just take their families and go starve under a bridge.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Lancero
(3,011 posts)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?
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)My son-in-law works for the Steelworkers Union.