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NO STRIKE in 08
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<blockquote data-quote="RockyRogue" data-source="post: 245513" data-attributes="member: 7185"><p>Good point, Lifer. Since our last strike, there have been a number of strikes in the airline industry. I forget what year but Northwest was hit by a several month strike. The company straight-up told strikers, customers, stockholders and the government right before the strike: "We will not even try to operate in the event of a strike. We will shutdown at X time on X day." Indeed, the company <em>did</em> shutdown. I don't recall details but the company was calling in special teams from manufacturers to prepare aircraft for long-term storage when the strike was settled. </p><p> </p><p>And Lifer, I got a little too bored for my health yesterday. I went looking online and found out UPS has had a number of very long, very destructive strikes. One in the late '60s was <strong>84</strong> days. A couple in the '70s were a month or more. Indeed, Ron Carey pushed UPS a little far when he was at Local 804. He pushed so hard that UPS threatened to <strong><em>shutdown</em></strong> Metro New York City package operations. Anyone know how close UPS came to carrying out that threat? <strong><em>TWENTY-FOUR HOURS</em></strong>!!You can say UPS wouldn't have shutdown Metro New York City but all you have to do is look at the Alaska shutdown to know UPS will do so. Be warned.......-Rocky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockyRogue, post: 245513, member: 7185"] Good point, Lifer. Since our last strike, there have been a number of strikes in the airline industry. I forget what year but Northwest was hit by a several month strike. The company straight-up told strikers, customers, stockholders and the government right before the strike: "We will not even try to operate in the event of a strike. We will shutdown at X time on X day." Indeed, the company [I]did[/I] shutdown. I don't recall details but the company was calling in special teams from manufacturers to prepare aircraft for long-term storage when the strike was settled. And Lifer, I got a little too bored for my health yesterday. I went looking online and found out UPS has had a number of very long, very destructive strikes. One in the late '60s was [B]84[/B] days. A couple in the '70s were a month or more. Indeed, Ron Carey pushed UPS a little far when he was at Local 804. He pushed so hard that UPS threatened to [B][I]shutdown[/I][/B] Metro New York City package operations. Anyone know how close UPS came to carrying out that threat? [B][I]TWENTY-FOUR HOURS[/I][/B]!!You can say UPS wouldn't have shutdown Metro New York City but all you have to do is look at the Alaska shutdown to know UPS will do so. Be warned.......-Rocky [/QUOTE]
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