U1TV - Real Union Busting, Number 2 - Pittston, 1989

[ps1547]

I bet you looked sharp, looker5967, dressed up in your blue/grey uniform while carrying miners with mud and dirt on them to the buses. I guess it didn't matter if you got mud on you or not, because no matter how you dress up a pig, it's still a pig.

[ps1547]

looker5967...Thats just like a professional trooper to enjoy roughing up the miners and boast that you got off on it at a later date, really demonstrating who the thugs really are.....all the while accepting a retirement check with benefits you wouldn't receive without your membership in the FOP. You're the type of cop that does 90mph hauling your boat up the freeway with your FOP decals on your license plate so the "Protectors of the public" won't write you a ticket.

[22grg]

It was great to win at Pittston,

[looker5967]

I was there too as a VSP Trooper. It was a pleasure to have been sent by the Governor to arrest those UMWA thugs. Unions are a relic of a bygone era and need to disband. UMWA=You Might Work Again. Then again, maybe not!!!

[GodzillaX8]

@looker5967 Employee rights are a "relic of a bygone era"? You honestly think enslaving people with low pay, poor (if any) benefits, and no ability to negotiate is the way of the future?

[RasSparkasse]

I wasn't there, but my union sent a van load of food and people to be arrested. I'm pround of that and even prouder of the UMW that took a stand. It was a great moment in real American history.

[22grg]

I agree,It Was tough times,but we stuck together.

[momawstanley]

I remember these days,they will go with me to my grave.Sooo scarry.Our whole family went through this together,trying to support our men and dads.The Lord was watching over us all.