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Posted: 8/26/2005 6:12:54 AM EDT
Has anyone heard anything about a trucker's strike starting on Labor Day?
I have a friend who runs a small, independent trucking company, and he was talking about it last night at a local diner. I didn't know if anyone had heard anything about this. Good thing Wal-Mart's supply lines aren't union. Their shelves will be stocked.  
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Posted: 8/26/2005 6:39:44 AM EDT
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Unions are losing their relevance in America. They have to pull stupid shit from time to time to stay in the news. Sort of like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
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Posted: 8/26/2005 7:21:29 AM EDT
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Its like the miners around here who used to strike the day before deer season opened up and end the strike the last day of deer season.
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Posted: 8/26/2005 7:32:00 AM EDT
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Yeah , but i can see their point and it ain't to just to strike! It will definatly send a message to Oil companies. You know how many millions of gallons won't be sold if they go out just one week?
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Posted: 8/26/2005 7:41:27 AM EDT
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Kharn |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 8:13:33 AM EDT
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That's a new version of the most misspelded word on AR15.com! 
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:05:13 PM EDT
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At least they are doing something.
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:10:16 PM EDT
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I wonder if that means UPS wont be shipping again?
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:14:52 PM EDT
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What the hell is that? |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:15:11 PM EDT
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That would be interesting, to say the least.I haven't heard anything about it and I talk to Yellow,Roadway guys every day. |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:22:48 PM EDT
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We still need the unions in this country. Once they are gone you'll see wages drop everywhere. The standard will be gone.
United We Bargain / Divided We Beg.......why should the employers be the only ones holding all the cards? |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:36:45 PM EDT
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Most people that talk shit about Unions are just jealous they aren't part of one.
Stick that in you chinese pipe and smoke it wally world lovers 
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:40:01 PM EDT
[#12]
early to bed,
early to rise, work like hell and ORGANIZE! |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:41:59 PM EDT
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I've managed to do extremely well without collective bargaining so far. No job I have ever had has been covered by a CBA, so your bullshit story doesn't wash. |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:42:51 PM EDT
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Mexicans who will work for 1/10 of what you want are very easy to find in Oklahoma. |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:43:02 PM EDT
[#15]
Spelling Nazi
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:46:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:51:01 PM EDT
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So this is what you want in America?....a country loaded with mexicans that will work for 1/10 of what everyone else will accept? It would just be a matter of time before they organized too. Some people just don't get it. Sheesh! |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:53:01 PM EDT
[#18]
yall should read up on Samuel Gompers and George Westinghouse.
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:53:49 PM EDT
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Unions are an idea who's time has passed. I have nothing against organizing to ensure a safe work environment, but the whole "I get x dollars because I've been here 15 years" is a bullshit compensation method. It breeds laziness and is a disincentive to perform your job to excellence. I'm sorry, but if you're doing the same job as you were doing 15 years ago, at the same skill and performance level, you deserve to get the same pay (cost of living adjusted of course). If you advance your skill set, are more productive, what have you, you should get raises above and beyond cost of living. |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:54:25 PM EDT
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so they do it labor day, a very busy week of tourist driving? |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:54:29 PM EDT
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UPS is not going on strike. No way. No how.
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:56:06 PM EDT
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Don't try the logic thing with union folks.. it's like trying to teach a pig to yodel. |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:56:27 PM EDT
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I was in one for while, granted it was a part time job all they did for me was take my money and send me newsletters begging me to vote dimocrap |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:58:26 PM EDT
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Fuck them both. All I need to read are the union newsletters where I have worked. |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 5:58:48 PM EDT
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to beeredup to even Quote and reply. goodnight gentlemen!
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Posted: 8/26/2005 6:02:47 PM EDT
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replace them with undocumented scabs
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Posted: 8/26/2005 6:20:06 PM EDT
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Works for me |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 6:35:09 PM EDT
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oh yeah, cause they're doing so much about all the illegals that are driving wages down.......NOT! |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 6:57:21 PM EDT
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Wait a minute this is the teamsters. If they say they will strike on labor day it will take them week to get around to it. So don't count on a strike for about a week after labor day. Lazy bastards
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Posted: 8/26/2005 7:04:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/26/2005 7:10:13 PM EDT
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Ouch! |
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Posted: 8/26/2005 7:38:45 PM EDT
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Trucker bullshit,this shit is brought up all the time on the CB!Why would the Teamsters go on strike? They did'nt in the early 70's! It was the indepedents who went on strike in OH,PA,and AR,then!
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