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Merc Union Accepts Takebacks and Saves the Fox Valley
Fri, 09/04/2009 - 8:27pm | mal contends
IAM Local 1947 votes: Yes.
Mercury Marine union workers save the day and the city of Fond du Lac.
Make no mistake, the economic health of the Fox Valley is being borne on the strong backs of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Hail organized labor. Fond du Lac and the entire state owe a debt of gratitude to (IAM) Local 1947!
From (IAM) Local 1947:
Mercury Marine union workers save the day and the city of Fond du Lac.
Make no mistake, the economic health of the Fox Valley is being borne on the strong backs of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Hail organized labor. Fond du Lac and the entire state owe a debt of gratitude to (IAM) Local 1947!
From (IAM) Local 1947:
Wisconsin Machinists at Mercury Marine
Fond du Lac, Wi,
September 4, 2009
The members of IAM Local 1947 in Fond du Lac, Wi have ratified a modification of their current labor agreement that will result in job security and the movement of jobs from other Mercury Marine locations to Fond du Lac, Wi.
Mercury Marine Workers See Daylight, Wisc Pols Come Through
Wed, 09/02/2009 - 10:51am | mal contends
Updated - "Through the efforts of state and local officials...," reads the (IAM) Local 1947 webpage. That's the lede everyone is looking for.
A radical game changer out of Fond du Lac.
After the city and county of Fond du Lac and Wisconsin put together incentives to keep Mercury Marine jobs in Wisconsin, new word comes that Mercury Marine and the (IAM) Local 1947 [now updated] may strike a deal not only retaining manufacturing jobs but actually moving jobs from Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Fond du Lac.
Details on the negotiations are sketchy but the newly scheduled contract vote on Thursday and Friday may signal some great news coming out of Fondy.
After the city and county of Fond du Lac and Wisconsin put together incentives to keep Mercury Marine jobs in Wisconsin, new word comes that Mercury Marine and the (IAM) Local 1947 [now updated] may strike a deal not only retaining manufacturing jobs but actually moving jobs from Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Fond du Lac.
Details on the negotiations are sketchy but the newly scheduled contract vote on Thursday and Friday may signal some great news coming out of Fondy.
Obama’s Presidency on the Brink
Wed, 07/15/2009 - 2:04pm | mal contends
And so is our country.
How President Obama reacts to three catastrophes will define his presidency.
And none is the health care crisis, as critical as that is, and as annoying as are the Republican lies about public health care.
The catastrophes are Afghanistan, Goldman Sachs, and Veterans Affairs, none of which show a clear path to an acceptable humanitarian and political resolution.
Afghanistan
“Fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia!’” said Vizzini in The Princess Bride, a brilliant film my girlfriend talked me into watching.
Or as Gregory Feifer puts it in The Great Gamble, The Soviet War in Afghanistan (HarperCollins, 2009), “The Soviet war in Afghanistan again confirmed that no power ever successfully conquered that land … [From] Cyrus the Great [to] Alexander the Great … [to] the British … foreign forces have often moved into Afghanistan with relative ease, they’ve never been able to maintain control.”
Feifer and Vizzini might have added that the difficulties of the invaders paled in comparison to the devastation wreaked upon the invaders’ Afghan victims who after all were slaughtered and maimed on a level surpassing the American imagination.
And none is the health care crisis, as critical as that is, and as annoying as are the Republican lies about public health care.
The catastrophes are Afghanistan, Goldman Sachs, and Veterans Affairs, none of which show a clear path to an acceptable humanitarian and political resolution.
Afghanistan
“Fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia!’” said Vizzini in The Princess Bride, a brilliant film my girlfriend talked me into watching.
Or as Gregory Feifer puts it in The Great Gamble, The Soviet War in Afghanistan (HarperCollins, 2009), “The Soviet war in Afghanistan again confirmed that no power ever successfully conquered that land … [From] Cyrus the Great [to] Alexander the Great … [to] the British … foreign forces have often moved into Afghanistan with relative ease, they’ve never been able to maintain control.”
Feifer and Vizzini might have added that the difficulties of the invaders paled in comparison to the devastation wreaked upon the invaders’ Afghan victims who after all were slaughtered and maimed on a level surpassing the American imagination.
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Tags: Politics, Afghanistan, Barack Obama presidency, Eric Shensiki, Global Economic Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Gordon Duff, Gregory Feifer, MATT TAIBBI, Robert Scheer, The Princess Bride, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam Veterans of America
Useful Idiots at the Capital
Wed, 04/15/2009 - 8:19am | mal contends
Update IV: MJS: Sign of anti-Obama protester reads "Keep your change. I'll keep freedoms. God bless the USA."
Update III: Time for TEA and a Fair Tax by Chuck Norris
Update II: Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo has an insightful piece on the astroturf-nature of the the Tea Party events. In sum, no grassroots uprising, just a bunch of GOP activists [and locally with a few crazies from Fondy].
Update: Human Events magazine (of Newt, Dick Cheney, Rush, Ann Coulter renown) is promoting a "survival guide" warning that the Obama government is Preparing a Military Response to Coming Social Chaos. I swear these people are praying for a depression, a catastrophe, something disastrous. Was that a black helicopter that just flew over?
Update II: Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo has an insightful piece on the astroturf-nature of the the Tea Party events. In sum, no grassroots uprising, just a bunch of GOP activists [and locally with a few crazies from Fondy].
Update: Human Events magazine (of Newt, Dick Cheney, Rush, Ann Coulter renown) is promoting a "survival guide" warning that the Obama government is Preparing a Military Response to Coming Social Chaos. I swear these people are praying for a depression, a catastrophe, something disastrous. Was that a black helicopter that just flew over?