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Originally Posted by Jamo
To be honest, and as much as I...
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...employment suicide for their own members.
Wes...not sure I understand your reference to a lockout, given the offensive strike action. Depends on whether permanent replacements are hired rather than a closure.
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By lockout, I mean that I
believe it is common for a manufacturing plant to go into lock-out as soon as a strike ensues just for security reasons. This prevents someone, or a partial group, from entering the premises, ostensibly to work, but secretly to create sabotage. Selected folks, such as management or replacement workers, can enter.
Locally, for instance, a Bobcat plant (skid-steer loaders) recently locked out union employees as soon as they struck. Normally there is nothing to stop the public from just walking right on in. They only installed gates a few years ago and they are not manned normally.
A fear expressed to me by one of the employees, that I know well (voted not to strike), said that at that point the company could send trucks to remove plant fixtures such as Mazak CNC machines and tooling with the plan being to ship them to
thee new factory overseas.
Picture, if you will, kind of a perverse Norman Rockwell moment, an employee standing there, holding his picket sign as snow falls, as a flatbed hauls out the machine that he used to operate ....across his picket line. Perhaps his gloves and an empty paper coffee cup from the last day still sitting near the control console.
In reality, moving a plant usually doesn't happen quite that fast. That could be a public relations disaster for the corporation.
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