Bill Bissett, president of the Kentucky Coal Association, an industry group, disagree. “I just don’t think there’s that level of discontent between the company and working coal miners, which I think is a very good thing,” he said.
“If anything, they’ve won,” Bissett continued. “They’ve worked themselves out of a job.”
I don't even know where to begin with this level of deliberate ignorance…
The people I know who spent time digging, or climbing into, holes in the ground in the Northwest Territories got paid pretty good money. No idea if they were unionised, but I would presume so.
On the other hand, with no organisation to back them up, these poor fuckers in Kentucky will start getting picked off at will, and no doubt will be whining their heads off in a few years.
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So, the |blacklegs| can sleep soundly.
I don't even know where to begin with this level of deliberate ignorance…
/FFS
Bill Blissett, aka Miss Passive-Aggressive 2015.
[And her daddy was a union man down in the mines
Fighting the good fight cross the Harlan County Line…
[You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive…]
Obligatory:
[Harlan Man] and
[The Mountain .]
The people I know who spent time digging, or climbing into, holes in the ground in the Northwest Territories got paid pretty good money. No idea if they were unionised, but I would presume so.
On the other hand, with no organisation to back them up, these poor fuckers in Kentucky will start getting picked off at will, and no doubt will be whining their heads off in a few years.
And so, the pendulum swings…
And on your second point – Exhibit A, the Harper Government.
At least this recession should finally get that fucking neocon limpet out of Ottowa.