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Omaha Steve

(99,060 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:54 PM Jul 2020

Shipbuilder Files Complaint Over Union Threats During Strike

Source: Military News-AP

By David Sharp

Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works on Friday filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing its largest union of threatening workers who cross the picket line during an ongoing strike in Maine.

The company accused leaders of Machinists’ Local S6 of threatening so-called scabs with fines and loss of benefits — and hinting at violence.

“We are extremely disappointed that union leaders would make false and threatening statements to the very employees they are supposed to represent,” said BIW President Dirk Lesko. “We take these issues very seriously and will continue to ensure our employees’ rights are protected.”

Union leaders in a statement warned that anyone who chooses to cross the picket line will be fined after the strike is over and had this to say about scabs: “No man has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with.”



A striking shipbuilder walks outside Bath Iron Works, June 22, 2020, in Bath, Maine. Production workers at one of the Navy's largest shipbuilders overwhelmingly voted to strike, rejecting the company's three-year contract offer Sunday and threatening to further delay delivery of ships. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Read more: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/07/11/shipbuilder-files-complaint-over-union-threats-during-strike.html

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Shipbuilder Files Complaint Over Union Threats During Strike (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2020 OP
Those aren't "so-called scabs"; they're SCABS! Let them lie in the bed they're Atticus Jul 2020 #1
Ronnie Reagan Wellstone ruled Jul 2020 #2
Don't cross picket lines. Doug.Goodall Jul 2020 #3
The company wants to protect workers' rights? mdbl Jul 2020 #4

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
1. Those aren't "so-called scabs"; they're SCABS! Let them lie in the bed they're
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 05:24 PM
Jul 2020

making for themselves.

"There's a man goin' 'round takin' names---"

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Ronnie Reagan
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 05:49 PM
Jul 2020

and his Minions,classified scabs as non Union Replacement Workers. Yah right,same thing SCABS.

Oh oh,I would not want to be a Scab working at Bath. There is Sh*tstorm a coming. People are on edge the way it is.

mdbl

(4,972 posts)
4. The company wants to protect workers' rights?
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 09:48 PM
Jul 2020

What a load of horseshit. They don't give a damn about the workers, just their cost of production.

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