Workers at Iron Range mines await word on contract talks
August 31, 2012 at 12:40 am in Duluth News Tribune
Five taconite mines on Minnesota’s Iron Range and two in Michigan could shut down at midnight Friday if the plants’ owners and the United Steelworkers union don’t agree on new contracts.
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Where is our Rep Craack on this issue? Doesn’t he support the Union workers? Oh yeah he is from the same party as Walker who took union rights away in Wisconsin. Let the free market decide your pay and benefits they say – i.e. take what the captains of industry feel like giving you. Union members who are considering voting Republican better wake up and look at what happened in Wisconsin. It is coming soon to you.
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We aren’t as gullible as you Freddie. We don’t believe that old worn out trash you union thugs continue to peddle out expecting the rank & file to accept. I lost my union job when Oberstar was in office and the union was too busy with political campaigns to help me get it back. In fact, it was the union that took me off the job and felt no sense of guilt or responsibility to let me even have a labor attorney represent me since the union and Oberstar would not, If Cravaack had been in office then, he would have forced the union to abide by the Landrum-Griffin Act and let me have representation. The DFL and the unions today no longer care about all of their members, only those in the clique. So, us rank & file will support union member Cravaack and other Republicans because they can’t screw us any worse than the DFL and current union leadership already has.
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Intersting how we can put blame on subjects like this, or critisize officials. Don’t . I am a proud Steel worker and I feel like our Union is the strongest it has ever been, and it’s because of US. I wouldn’t trade being a Steel worker for the world right now in this horse crap of economy. I am not worried to go to work some day and be told “Sorry, we just don’t need you anymore”, or at least without a fight, and unless you are one to depend on union stuarts because of ill fates, personality problems, you have a strong union. I know some people who like to use them, then they get bitter, and don’t represent them fully. Well, there is a reason for that. If you put in your 100%, and are union backed, you have to say it feels pretty dang good to be working right now for any company. Just spoke to a younger person who was promoted on a non union job, next week she was let go.
It’s the people who work for the unions who make them strong, and let me tell you, Steel workers are strong. In this economy, we are fighting for a fare wage, that’s it. We are not out to gouge anyone not matter how much the company is making. We also look out for our retirees, and our newcomers. So, unless you know a Steel worker, please do NOT pass judgement. Iron rangers are hard workers, they deserve equal pay for the jobs that they do, and putting themselves in dangerous hazards each day that could end life.
I can safelty say I can go on feeling good month after month, knowing that I give my 110% to my company with representation, if I shall ever need it, but never have so far in the 20 years I have been a STEEL WORKER.
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Oh yeah, I am proud to be a DEMOCRAT
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Ya Fred. Because strikes in the mines NEVER happened while Oberstar was in office. Mine workers striking? Never heard of it. This has nothing to do with Cravaack. These labor issues are as old as time and they will happen again and again and again regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is in the 8th district seat.
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