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Like Scott Walker, Honeywell CEO Has Threatened to Use Troops to Bust a Strike


Last Friday, two van loads of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7-669 members, who have been locked out of the Honeywell uranium facility in Metropolis, Ill., for nine months, traveled through the night to join the ongoing protest in the Wisconsin State Capitol.

“After all the support we have seen from around the country, it would be a disservice not to join our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin and give some of that support back,” said Darrell Lillie, president of the USW local. “Without collective bargaining rights, workers in both the public and private sector would be devastated and lose their voice in the workplace.”

The 228 union workers in Metropolis have waged what labor historian Joe Burns callled the most high-profile labor struggle, as Honeywell's CEO attempts to bust unions throughout the corporation. They have been at the forefront of defending the right to collective bargaining in the private sector, facing an adversary in the private sector as ideologically fanatical as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker—Honeywell CEO David Cote. Watch this great segment by RT TV’s Lauren Lyster on the struggle at Honeywell:

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Last year, members of USW Local 9292 at a Honeywell facility located on a military base at Blount Island, Fla., threatened to strike after receiving a poor contract offer. Local 9292 represented approximately 500 employees at Honeywell who service Marine Corps equipment and gear. Some support operations in Iraq, on fleet ships, or National Guard units.

Honeywell managers promptly threatened to bring in Marine Corps troops to do the jobs of union workers if they struck, according to USW Public Affairs Director Gary Hubbard and USW Local 7-669 Press Secretary John Paul Smith. Likewise, Honeywell pulled the security clearance of several of the key union leaders based overseas in an attempt to intimidate them. Workers in combat zones were forced to find and pay for their own way home. Ultimately, as a result of the intimidation, Local 9292 workers decided not to strike

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