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What happened after the 97 strike was over?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ms.PacMan" data-source="post: 1707571" data-attributes="member: 4656"><p>Not one person, full or part time crossed at my center.</p><p></p><p>One part timer with a lot of years in was going to cross because mgmt told him he would lose his job. Some of the senior drivers talked to him and he drove home. Just the act of contemplating crossing the picket line made him a pariah for quite awhile.</p><p></p><p>As I recall they didn't even call the strike until midnight. I was dropped off in the middle of the night at a podunk center in IL. on a highway - either a 705 or 710 local (they weren't on strike). Just little ol me with a lawn chair and a picket sign. All thru the night semi drivers honked at me. The first employee I saw was a feeder driver who parked the semi in the lot and left. The first driver I saw couldn't believe what he was seeing and stopped in the middle of the road for a second laughing. He pulled into a gas station across the street and was followed by the other drivers showing up for work. They huddled around waving at me from across the street then decided to one by one call in from the pay phone there at the gas station. One of supes tried moving the abandoned semi into position at the dock and hit the building. Good times!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ms.PacMan, post: 1707571, member: 4656"] Not one person, full or part time crossed at my center. One part timer with a lot of years in was going to cross because mgmt told him he would lose his job. Some of the senior drivers talked to him and he drove home. Just the act of contemplating crossing the picket line made him a pariah for quite awhile. As I recall they didn't even call the strike until midnight. I was dropped off in the middle of the night at a podunk center in IL. on a highway - either a 705 or 710 local (they weren't on strike). Just little ol me with a lawn chair and a picket sign. All thru the night semi drivers honked at me. The first employee I saw was a feeder driver who parked the semi in the lot and left. The first driver I saw couldn't believe what he was seeing and stopped in the middle of the road for a second laughing. He pulled into a gas station across the street and was followed by the other drivers showing up for work. They huddled around waving at me from across the street then decided to one by one call in from the pay phone there at the gas station. One of supes tried moving the abandoned semi into position at the dock and hit the building. Good times! [/QUOTE]
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