EMC Lockout London Ontario

EMC employees prepare the picket lines after being locked out by their employer Caterpillar on January 1st, 2012.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• caterpillar
• lockout
• labour
• dispute
• afi
• emc
• locomotive
• emd
• train
• london
• ontario

[xyzbobboy]

Oh, you poor people. You just don't know how evil Caterpillar is to it's workers.

[adventurousmedia]

@xyzbobboy We are finding out real fast.

[kitfoxflyer]

fight over - EMD closed now.

Employess all lost jobs --

CAW still getting paid

[firespinguy]

@allahisgod1000 You call them evil, but yet you want a job from them? I wouldn't want to hire anyone who would think my business is evil. If they are evil then create your own company if you are intelligent enough. The Union did not want to negotiate with the company, it and so the jobs left. People who have talent to start and run companies do not have to give you jobs. They can run it just as well in other places. If the Union was not so greedy for benefits , then maybe they wouldn't left.

[allahisgod1000]

This is truly the end gasps for the middle class, we have taken all the tariffs off goods from countries in which people work for a fraction of what we could afford to live on, how can we compete with our cost of living here making offshore wages??? These companies are making record profits and we are being eliminated! Thank you Caterpillar and all the EVIL companies just like you!

[FloridaMartin1]

$38/hr = $76,000/yr for a factory worker in wages alone not counting benefits, probably another $30,000. It appears the Union would rather have 1 person making over $100K than 500 making $50K. The Company will be forced to close this plant. If the do, the Union will tout a win. We really showed that evil company...we never gave in.

[JeffHardyROCKZZ1]

what a slimy company.. either go to the table and bargain a decent contract, or close the plant. They cant be excited in usa, who who want to work for a union buster like that..

[Fletch222222]

First Talbotville now this? Why not just shut down London Ont entirely?

[nwendt06]

keep up the fight! i know this is coming are way in america! we need solidarity among the middle class, Canada r the US were all going to get fucked by big corporations!