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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Unions, onions, and things... The Saga Continues
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Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 08:17:21 EST
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I think the plant Ken is talking about that was closed when the
Company would not sell it was featured on last weeks Parade.  The
local union made a bid to buy out the Steel plant, the Company
accepted the offer in principle until the union could OK the
deal with the National organization of the union.  The high
muckety-mucks at the National level turned thumbs down on the
local union to buy the plant.  That is why the company did not
sell the plant to the union.  This kind of thing has happened
any number of times recently.  The National union does not want
to have to deal with its own members in the bargaining arena.
As a result of the National Unions stupidity, there are now
2300 more steelworkers out of a job in a town that had only
one industry, the steel mill.  Ken tells us that the Union
has only the highest of princples and I say Bull Shit too.

More damage has been done to the work force under the guise of
unionism than any other factor over the past twenty years.

Enough, I'm going to renew my card in the Teamsters Union, call
a strike, and go out and shoot a few independent truckers.
T. C. Wheeler