Solidarity Forever
Nov 30th, 2006 at 3:41 pm by Susie
Pretty interesting, don’t you think?
PHILADELPHIA - Nine unions at Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers agreed Thursday to extend contract talks by another week and are prepared to cross picket lines if editorial employees strike before then, a union leader said.
“We think a strike is really going to hurt us,” said Joe Lyons, president of the Philadelphia Council of Newspaper Unions, which represents nine of 10 unions at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. “Whatever direction they’re going, we totally disagree with that.”
Asked if that means the unions, including the drivers, would cross picket lines, Lyons said: “If we have to, we will.”
I though the word union meant — umm — a union.
You know, like unity and united and joined together.
Someone tell that Lyons dickhead that strikes do
hurt the strikers — always in the short run,
and sometimes even in the long run. By siding with capital, he’s damaging labor.