Another company in California will sell out its workforce

[SoCalDem]

a longtime friend of mine told me the other night that his company informed the employees that their "bargaining" for the new contract is not acceptable, so the company will be sold...sometime around November (happy Holidays, folks)..

he has been working there for about 25 years (he's journeyman union). Their company newsletter is always bragging about how porfitable they are and how great their business is.. He's probably going to try to take retirement (he's 53), but is worried sick about losing the medical benefits, and finding another good job..

The company did toss out a little "lifeline" to them.. Accept a paycut, pay 75% of medical premiums, and give back paid holidays..

Apparently the compnay will be sold to "a scavenger company" who will raid it for the "good parts" and just shut it down..

Companies all over the place (with union employees) are doing this, yet we rarely see much, if any, coverage on it..

This is the family of one of our adopted-soldiers who served 2 1/2 years in Iraq.. (Jimmy's Dad)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. The idea is to gut the unions

if not get rid of them totally. That's part of the plan to make the US into a Third World country.

[phantom power]

2. The 80s all over again.

We'll have Gordon Gecko style billionaires making their money as chop-shop vultures.

[AzDar]

3. Sickening.... nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. A fascist state does that all the time

gut the unions and destroy labor, labor needs to re adopt the tactics of the 1900s, the early 1900s, and yes some folks will get killed, but they do it because they can

[acmejack]

6. It was the real reason the New Deal was proposed.

Unions are institutions of strength, providing the workers with solidarity. The hate (& fear) us for our numbers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Yes and what they are doing is laying the

foundation for teh other reason to the new Deal... which was enacted to avoid a hot revolution... the GOP and their friends are laying the foundations for a very hot revolution

[delete_bush]

5. I'm curious as to the industry involved, and

if you know how many employees are affected?

[SoCalDem]

7. I think he told me once, but I have forgotten

I know it's involved in manufacturing, and related to machinery.. i think there are around a couple of hundred people..
It's hard physical labor, and kind of dangerous work.. he has hurt himself on the job a few times over the years.

[iwalktheline]

8. capitalists are in an all-out frenzy of blood lust against workers

it is class WARfare.

not tension

not competition

WAR

[FloridaPat]

9. See if he and his fellow workers can buy the company. Maybe they

can pick it up on the cheap and run it.