March 2, 1990

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2014/03/march-2-1990/

6,000 Greyhound bus drivers go on strike over wages and job security. The company hired 3,000 scabs to permanently replace the striking workers, declared the strike over two months later, and filed for bankruptcy in June. In 1993, Greyhound agreed to rehire 550 striking drivers, paying them $22 million in back pay.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Kick because this is important.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

2. K & R

Ditto.

[TBF]

3. K&R

[awoke_in_2003]

4. They fired 6000

and rehired less than 10% of them. They have destroyed unions.

[Isoldeblue]

5. The crazed ideology from the right

is hell-bent on destroying this country; worker, by worker, woman by woman and any other race that isn't as white as their boney asses.

We have to fight them. If we lose the senate this election, it won't matter who is POTUS. We will be f u c k e d. The unions will all be toast.

Get out there and get people to the polls! There is too much at stake not to.

[Cheese4TheRat]

6. Whom shall we elect?

We had both houses of congress and the Presidency and a vote on Card Check never came up while unions were attacked in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Sometimes things far too hopeless to bother.

[Isoldeblue]

7. I smell a dirty rat.

Jump ship if you want. Start here on DU. I think you got lost.

[Cheese4TheRat]

8. It's called being discouraged. Sorry if I'm not a Pollyanna.

Or do we always have to smile and cheer Go Team? That's not really an winning strategy when change is needed, in my opinion.

[Isoldeblue]

9. So you agree change is needed.

What do you suggest be done to help accomplish change?

[Cheese4TheRat]

10. I don't know, it's why I posed the question in the first place.

I would start with not accepting that conservative Democrats are the only electable Democrats in Res states.

Unfortunately current Democratic leadership believes that to be true. So maybe it is time to move beyond current Democratic leaders. Then we better do a far superior job of vetting the new leaders we latch on to.

But these are all generalities, which are meaningless.

[Omaha Steve]

12. We didn't have 60 votes for cloture

Lincoln got voted out. She is now a lobbyist. (Ben-NE) Nelson retired.

[Scuba]

11. What is this thing you call "strike"?