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Title: In Mott’s Strike, More Than Pay at Stake
Source: The New York Times
URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/b ... .html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&src=mv
Published: Aug 17, 2010
Author: STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Post Date: 2010-09-09 09:25:06 by lucysmom
Keywords: economy, labor
Views: 3444
Comments: 4

“It’s disgusting, honestly, that they want to take things away from the people who made them profitable,” said Ms. Muoio (pronounced MOY-oh), a $19-an-hour machine operator who has worked at the plant 15 years.

The company that owns Mott’s, the beverage conglomerate Dr Pepper Snapple Group, counters that the Mott’s workers are overpaid compared with other production workers in the Rochester area, where blue-collar unemployment is high after years of layoffs at employers like Xerox and Kodak.

Chris Barnes, a company spokesman, said Dr Pepper Snapple was seeking a $1.50-an-hour wage cut, a pension freeze and other concessions to bring the plant’s costs in line with “local and industry standards.”

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The workers, meanwhile, are incensed that the company is demanding givebacks when it posted record profits last year and increased its dividend by 67 percent in May.

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Tim Budd, a 24-year employee who belongs to the union’s bargaining team, said he was shocked by one thing the plant manager said during negotiations.

“He said we’re a commodity like soybeans and oil, and the price of commodities go up and down,” Mr. Budd recalled. “He said there are thousands of people in this area out of jobs, and they could hire any one of them for $14 an hour. It made me sick to have someone sit across the table and say I’m not worth the money I make.”

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#1. To: lucysmom (#0) (Edited)

In a minute, all of the DittoBots who continually bitch about how crappy the economy is and how the American worker is getting screwed will line up decrying this strike.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

war  posted on  2010-09-09   9:34:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lucysmom (#0)

The workers, meanwhile, are incensed that the company is demanding givebacks when it posted record profits last year and increased its dividend by 67 percent in May.

Commodities aren't allowed to be incensed.

/sarc

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-09-09   9:43:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: war (#1)

Yep. The soy beans will side with their corporate masters.

lucysmom  posted on  2010-09-09   9:52:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: lucysmom, Fred Mertz, war, All (#3)

Yep. The soy beans will side with their corporate masters.

Very good.

The Top 50 000 have run out of arguements. The zioFundy jesus schtick is getting old. Violence is all they have left.

Even as Wealth Concentration is maintained at all costs and Energy per Capita is dropping like a rock.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-09   10:01:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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