Three FairPoint Strikers Hit on Picket Line by PU truck

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2014/12/three-fairpoint-strikers-hit-on-picket-line/

A FairPoint replacement worker driving across a picket line in Keene, N.H., hit three striking workers at roughly 3 p.m. today

An account of the incident has just been posted to the official Facebook page of the unions and is excerpted in full below

The three strikers are members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and the leader of the New Hampshire IBEW local has issued a statement

Statement from IBEW Local 2320 Business Manager Glenn Brackett

“Today’s near tragedy in Keene shows just how reckless FairPoint has become. It’s outrageous that they’d hire people who would hit workers standing up for their families and the customers we serve. FairPoint is hiring clearly unqualified contractors, and we have no idea if these people have had proper background checks. And that’s not just a concern to us. It’s a serious concern to the public. FairPoint is telling the public to let these people into their homes. But we don’t know who they are or whether they can safely serve the people of New England.”

Post on the Fairness at FairPoint Facebook Page (Link: HERE)

THREE N.H. IBEW MEMBERS HIT BY REPLACEMENT WORKER

FULL story and details at link. It was intentional.

[DreamGypsy]

1. Time passes, the strikebreaking tactics don't change. Nan Freeman.

How One Teenage Student in Florida Became The First Martyr Of Cesar Chavez’ Farm Workers from January 26, 2012:

Forty years ago this week, a freshmen at New College of Florida became the first of five martyrs of Cesar Chavez’ United Farm Workers.
Four are men. All farm workers. One is Nan Freeman, an 18-year-old who was killed while picketing at a sugar mill in Palm Beach County.

At school, people called her “Morning Glory,” because they liked to say she made their mornings glorious.

<snip>

On January 25, 1972 Nan Freeman was picketing with farm workers at the Talisman Sugar Plant in Belle Glade, the southern shore of Lake Okeechobee.

About 250 sugar cane haulers and truck drivers had walked out of their jobs, protesting the company’s refusal to negotiate working conditions.

<snip>

And while other students were holding massive protests against the war, Nan Freeman was handing out leaflets to sugar cane workers who broke from the strike. At 3:15AM, a strike-breaker who may or may not have had experience driving the 70,000 pound trucks hauling sugar cane hit Freeman while turning into the sugar mill.

For the young farm worker movement, Nan Freeman, a teenage Jewish girl from Massachusetts, became its first martyr.

In 1977 Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood were young songwriters active in the grape strikes with the United Farm Workers. They sent their songs to Broadside. This song and three others were release by the UFW on a 45rpm disk.

La Lucha Continuara -

Now the man who owns the cane fields in Belle Glade, same man he owns the sugar mill.
Thinks he even owns the sugar workers and he believes he always will.

She was my sister and a sister of the Black Eagle too. And now the field workers who used to be forgotten,
Have a union that's for the many, not just the few.

Some lives are measured out in silver, others are measured out in gold.
But the lives that are given out in sharing, these are the richest ones I know.

And it's Huelga, Huelga, Huelga ...

Thanks for the reminder, Omaha Steve. It's strike, strike, strike. The struggle goes on and on.

[Union Scribe]

2. I'd never heard of them

so I went to Twitter and their scabs must not be doing very well because every mention of them is complaining about their service.