'I was naive': after losing healthcare battle, factory workers fear next blow

[Swagman]

"After 105 days on strike, the billionaires – including Donald Trump’s ‘jobs czar’ – won, leaving many Momentive workers unhappy and worried about their futures"

Workers went on strike at Momentive last November hoping to fight off a new contract that would have slashed their healthcare and retirement benefits. The industrial action started in the white-hot heat of the election, and many of Momentive’s workers voted for Donald Trump, whose appeal to blue-collar workers helped Trump comfortably beat Hillary Clinton in Saratoga County, Waterford’s district.

Mack is not a Trump supporter, the president has lived his life “as if he’s playing Monopoly”, he says. But many of his colleagues, he estimates 80%, including Hohn, are and remain so. For them, this is just the latest erosion of workers’ rights at Momentive since GE sold it.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/union-strike-momentive-stephen-schwarzman-blackstone?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[guillaumeb]

1. "Naive", or simply uneducable?

How many times do the same workers have to fall for the same GOP lies before they realize what is happening?

[Lanius]

2. This is why a person shouldn't vote with only their lizard brain

History, analysts and many of their fellow Americans told these people that Trump wouldn't be a good president for the non-wealthy. But they voted for him anyway and now look what's happening.

[hatrack]

3. Well who did they FUCKING VOTE FOR?

80%? OK then, revel in the consequences of your actions.