Lufkin Industries Is Now On STRIKE!

[fgarvb1]

The contract was voted down by at least 70% of all the three unions.

Grab Your Ass Boys, Here We GO AGAIN!


Because there is more than one LUFKIN.

http://www.lufkin.com/

 

[dragonhearted]

The contract was voted down by at least 70% of all the three unions.

Grab Your Ass Boys, Here We GO AGAIN!


Because there is more than one LUFKIN.

http://www.lufkin.com/

yes...there is more than one Lufkin....and one of them is a "local guy"...makes toys from wood...does other carpentry also.

 

[Aquila]

Just out of curiosity.. doesnt striking hurt you too.. as in no paycheck?
I honestly don't know.

 

[RastaPope]

Pussy unions.

 

[Lancecastor]

Damn!

And I just ran out of oilfield power generating systems!

 

[RastaPope]

Just out of curiosity.. doesnt striking hurt you too.. as in no paycheck?
I honestly don't know.

it's my understanding they whine and groan, then get retroactive pay.

 

[Booty Bandit]

I know this may not be too popular but........the unions are past there time if ya ask me............just look at the dock workers on the west coast..........those people make a ton of money.......but just because they want to improve a few things with computors they are gonna put the whole country in a bind so that the union wont lose any control or jobs........thats BS and they all know it
I dont see why they dont fire there asses and hire some more people to do the job...........Ive run a crane before.......its not a hard job......and they are making big bucks
Its just like the car makers........how the hell is a person who makes 8.00 an hour gonna buy a car that they pay a person 25.00 an hour to build?

 

[Aquila]

it's my understanding they whine and groan, then get retroactive pay.

Thats just wrong. in my opinion no work = no pay.

Ok from the unioners perspective... what exactly are you striking over?

 

[fgarvb1]

Yes.
I will draw $125.00 per week strike benefit from the union that came out of my dues.

As i said in another thread i may very well lose my new truck, ruin my credit and god only knows what else.

The last time we struck was in 1976 and it lasted six months.

That was a mother of a strike. No one wins in a strike. Only as a last resort would i recommend it.

As i said it beats being an almost slave.

I had more to say about it near the end in the longshoreman's strike thread.

 

[Aquila]

Im just wondering what the strike is about.. what issues?

 

[70/30]

Call it an extended vacation, it'll be good for you. Learn how to play the harmonica. Make some bird houses. Make some money-grubbing executives shit their pants. It'll be fun.

 

[Azwed]

Im just wondering what the strike is about.. what issues?

Look here he lays it out for you.

 

[fgarvb1]

Retroactive Pay???? LOL! My god, Pass that joint over here!

I have worked there for over twenty-seven years and i make $12.69 per hour.

Now the machinest make more money and the electronic tech's make at least four or five dollars more, but remember this they have also been working there for a very long time and companies a third our size pays a good bit more even in this area!

 

[RastaPope]

Retroactive Pay???? LOL! My god, Pass that joint over here!

I have worked there for over twenty-seven years and i make $12.69 per hour.

Now the machinest make more money and the electronic tech's make at least four or five dollars more, but remember this they have also been working there for a very long time and companies a third our size pays a good bit more even in this area!

This begs the question: Why not get another job then? With more room for both financial and responsibility growth?

 

[REDWAVE]

Word to the wise

A picket line means YOU'D BETTER NOT CROSS!

 

[Aquila]

Re: Word to the wise

A picket line means YOU'D BETTER NOT CROSS!

And why not.. If I was running the company I would hire new Non-Union workers.
Nothing big about crossing a picket.

Now if in the meantime you can get your union workers back in the shop.. fine. but personally id hire as many non-unioners as I could.

 

[RastaPope]

Re: Re: Word to the wise

And why not.. If I was running the company I would hire new Non-Union workers.
Nothing big about crossing a picket.

Now if in the meantime you can get your union workers back in the shop.. fine. but personally id hire as many non-unioners as I could.

Me too.

And I'd cross a picket line, if I actually did physical work.

 

[fgarvb1]

Issues?

#1 is retirement
#2 is insurance
#3 and a long third is pay.

Again see redwaves longshoremans thread the last page or so.

I'm tired and i'm sure to fuck it up if i tell it again tonight.

 

[Booty Bandit]

Retroactive Pay???? LOL! My god, Pass that joint over here!

I have worked there for over twenty-seven years and i make $12.69 per hour.


Thats what you make an hour?!?!?!?!?!?
How much do you pay a month in union dues?
OK.......tell me again how good unions are.

 

[RastaPope]

Booty Bandit!

Possibly the best_name_ever.

 

[70/30]

I have worked there for over twenty-seven years and i make $12.69 per hour.

What the fuck kinda union are you a member of? I'd be a yelling muthafucka with a big ass multicolored sign.

 

[fgarvb1]

No you would not cross a picket line. If you helped them break the unions your reward would be to work very long hours for a little more than min. wage and you would get your ass fired just because some boss did not like the way you looked, dressed, talked or anything else they could think of.

insurance and retirement...forget it.

You would get treated better working at mcdonalds.

Some companies don't need unions because they treat their employees right. lufkin industries is not one of them.

Besides you would have to live here.

One of the old VP said one time years ago that if they did not have a union there they would have to start one.

 

[70/30]

Heck if someone loans me some poster board, some markers, a hardhat, and some Red Bull with everclear-I can give the line some tips on how to piss uppity capitalists off.

 

[REDWAVE]

Sit-down strikes

One of the big advantages of sit-down strikes, or plant occupations, is that it makes it impossible for the employer to run the business with scab labor. In the longshore strike, Garv's strike, and any strike, any attempt to bring in scab labor should be smashed-- BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY!

 

[Guest]

I'd like to have a picket fence in my front yard. Hey RED, will ya come build it for me?

Oh sorry, wrong thread.

Seriously, I'm sorry to hear ya troubles, but up here in the Pacific NW, we aint got no jobs, let alone a job to strike about. Economy sucks right now. Bad timing me thinks.

Moon