[lbo-talk] US army to break strike.

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 12/19/06, www.leninology. blogspot.com <leninology at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16226231/
>
> "The US Army is considering measures to force striking workers back to their
> jobs at a
> Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Kansas in the face of a looming shortage of
> tyres for
> Humvee trucks and other military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
> "A strike involving 17,000 members of the United Steelworkers union has
> crippled 16
> Goodyear plants in the US and Canada since October 5."The Bush
> administration has been one of the most aggressively anti-labour governments
> in
> history, but using the army to break a strike simply to keep tyres on
> Humvees in Iraq is on
> the one hand utterly grotesque, and on the other, an absolute gift to the
> antiwar movement.
>
> If I were an antiwar activist in America, I'd be taking buckets of cash down
> to the picket lines in Kansas.

The USW is back to negotiations.

<blockquote><http://goodyearsolidarity.blogspot.com/2006/12/usw-gt-in-negotiations.html>

USW, GT in Negotiations

By now everyone probably knows that the Steelworkers have accepted
Goodyear's offer to return to bargaining. Negotiations resumed in
Pittsburgh yesterday. Union leaders in Akron and other locations
express happiness at the prospect of meaningful negotiations. Amid
this news, actions at more than 150 Goodyear stores around the country
brought the union's message to the public. Meanwhile, in Topeka, a
judge limited pickets outside Topeka's Goodyear plant to 25 strikers.
The Goodyear situation stands in contrast to the contract reached at
Goodrich/Michelin.</blockquote>
-- 
Yoshie
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