Foundry strikers in Berkeley CA met with violent police response:

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Twitted from In These Times:

Foundry Workers Strike to Save Their Healthcare
Wednesday
Mar 23, 2011
3:46 pm By David Bacon

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7111/foundry_workers_strike_to_save_their_healthcare/

...On both Monday and Tuesday dozens of Berkeley police, with helmets and face shields, shoved and hit strikers as they attempted to help the company bring trucks full of castings out of its struck facility. On Tuesday, one striker, Norma Garcia, who is seven months pregnant, was struck in the abdomen and taken to a hospital...

Workers feel additionally betrayed by the company because they and their union testified before the Berkeley City Council three years ago. They urged the city to draft environmental regulations that would allow the foundry to continue operating while installing needed pollution control equipment.

Pacific Steel Casting Co. is a privately held corporation, the third-largest steel foundry in the United States. Its large corporate customers include vehicle manufacturers, like Petebilt Corp., and big oil companies, including BARCO. The company has been very productive in recent years, despite the recession. It chose not to comment.

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Thank you for In These Times for posting this!

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