It seems that Electro-Motive is now closing their plant in London after offering a boot to the head that the union rightly refused to accept in the form of a 50% pay cut.
When corporations negotiate in bad faith, lock out their workers and then close the plants, it sets labour relations back in years.
The CWA did do the right thing, but they got punished anyway. How this gets handled from this point is anyone's guess, but one thing is definitely for sure. The old way the unions have fought for their rights is starting to lose its effectiveness. We'll talk about this in another post...
All things aside, I recall a certain country which beat down their unions and subjugated others for being different. They even had a really crazy guy in charge with a war monger and a propagandist for lieutenants.
Parallels... they have a funny way of showing themselves.
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