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arikara

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8. Unions all over

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 12:57 PM

Nov 2013

gutted themselves when they accepted deals like that. They should never have agreed to a 2 tier system like that but they did it in many places. And I've never heard of a deal where they pay double time for working weekends unless the shop isn't normally open then.

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BREAKING: Wal-Mart workers strike, Target workers threaten to join Black Friday walkout [View all] Omaha Steve Nov 2013 OP

thank you for posting RitchieRich Nov 2013 #1

Good - and I will not cross that picket line. TBF Nov 2013 #2

We did this years ago Treant Nov 2013 #6

A few words for the UCFW and especially its members Tansy_Gold Nov 2013 #3

Unions all over arikara Nov 2013 #8

This one paid overtime on week-ends Tansy_Gold Nov 2013 #11

No doubt about it, some unions sold us out. marble falls Nov 2013 #15

Sadly, an all-too-common tale, Tansy bread_and_roses Nov 2013 #16

Gads They Want SO Much grilled onions Nov 2013 #4

Kick! grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #5

Strike! hog Nov 2013 #7

One wonder the kind of message the upper echelon would get Half-Century Man Nov 2013 #9

Kick and Rec n/t Joe Shlabotnik Nov 2013 #10

K&R DeSwiss Nov 2013 #12

And, in the same vein, to quote Harrison Ford on a job he once had: Brigid Nov 2013 #13

I refuse to cross picket lines and I am boycotting WalMart until they treat their workers right. marble falls Nov 2013 #14