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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarch 2, 1990
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
(149,560 posts)Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and rehired less than 10% of them. They have destroyed unions.
Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)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
(107 posts)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
(1,135 posts)Jump ship if you want. Start here on DU. I think you got lost.
Cheese4TheRat
(107 posts)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
(1,135 posts)What do you suggest be done to help accomplish change?
Cheese4TheRat
(107 posts)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
(99,562 posts)Lincoln got voted out. She is now a lobbyist. (Ben-NE) Nelson retired.