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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 07:29 PM
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Striking laborers set rally for Thursday as Fabcon brings in strikebreakers
Source: Workday Minnesota

By Steve Share,

SAVAGE - A week-long strike at the Fabcon plant in Savage took a new turn Monday when a busload of strikebreakers crossed picket lines established by members of Laborers Local 563.

Workers at Fabcon voted to go on strike April 5 rather than accept new contract terms that would have slashed pay by 30 percent by eliminating overtime pay for weekend work.

“This morning at 7:00 a.m. they brought strikebreakers up from Ohio. They came across the picket line in a big charter bus,” reported Tim Mackey, Local 563 business manager.

Mackey said Fabcon has another plant in Ohio but said he didn’t know if the strikebreakers came from Fabcon’s Ohio plant.

Read more: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4433



You might remember this LBN story from last week: House Speaker praises strikers for taking stand for fair wages

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4427

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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 07:32 PM
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1. Scabs.
Spits on ground.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 07:37 PM
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2. Corporate Republicon strategery
Ptooooey.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 07:41 PM
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3. Fucking scabs.
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab.

A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.

No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with.

Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab has not.

Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.

Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver.

Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commision in the british army.

The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled promise from his employer.

Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country.

A scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class.

Author --- Jack London (1876-1916)

NO SCABS!
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 07:45 PM
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4. I know the rules say
That the headline has to be posted verbatim. If the author of the piece had any backbone at all, he'd call them what they are...scabs. Worthless, shit sucking scabs. :grr:
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Plucketeer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:23 PM
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5. Thank you Ronnie Reagan.
It was the GOP's idol - Ron Reagan - that set the precedent for this shit. And he's still revered to this day, by working idjits, worried that some unemployed gal is gonna get milk for her kids at their expense. Never MIND that they make less money, thanks to RepuliCON ideology - and in that way itself, pay less taxes. Of course, it's a stupid victory, but when you're short a good number of synapses, it sounds good in a dimwit way! :crazy:
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:42 PM
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6. Not Ron Reagan. Ronald Reagan
Not to be confused with the Zombie's son. Thanks!

Hawkeye-X
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Plucketeer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 12:57 AM
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12. Note that I said "Ronnie"
Which I've never heard his son called. If I say "Ronald", it's more dignified than that actor president deserves.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:57 PM
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7. Scabs are just as evil as the fucker that hire them.
Scabs are traitors of the working class. FUCK THEM.
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zogofzorkon Donating Member (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:19 PM
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8. Maybe it should take an old turn such as
an overturned charter bus or two. There was a time that you didn't just roll through a picket line like you were on a sightseeing tour.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:45 PM
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10. Now ain't that the damn truth.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:32 PM
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9. ditto on the scabs, scumsucking bottomfeeders
knr
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jdadd Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:05 PM
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11. Scabs, the sore that never heals........
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