Picketing at 360 Smith on 2nd Place
All is not well at 360 Smith Street. A tipster snapped this photo of picketers out in front of the controversial development on Second Place in Carroll Gardens. He says he thought it was the Drywall Union, which is problematic unless the developer can assemble a crack team of master plasterers in a hurry. Update:…
All is not well at 360 Smith Street. A tipster snapped this photo of picketers out in front of the controversial development on Second Place in Carroll Gardens. He says he thought it was the Drywall Union, which is problematic unless the developer can assemble a crack team of master plasterers in a hurry. Update: The blog Carroll Gardens Diary just posted that it’s the Carpenters’ Union that’s doing the picketing. Another Update: It turns out that the protest is about drywall workers but it’s about work taking place at a brownstone on 2nd Place and not the large development on the corner.
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“BUT we really ARE on different sides here,”
EXACTLY. If employees learn to become shareholders and on the same side as management instead of adversarial, they might have survived. No, it’s not always the case but there are many large corporations where employees get bonuses in stock and are significant shareholders.
The reality of life folks is that the owner (shareholder) is the owner and they can damn well do as they please with the direction of the company. if more companies offered and more employees accepted a relationship where ownership interests are aligned ( managaement & employees are shareholders) then they would have far more say in the direction of the company.
The majority of technology, internet, healthcare and “new economy” companies are run this way and are the most profitable of all.
Also, companies are not willfully run into the ground just because some private equity firm owns them. That’s just stupid thinking and economically illogical.
“Don’t scab for the bosses, don’t listen to their lies; us poor folks haven’t got a chance, unless we organize. Which side are you on, which side are you on?”
Sorry DIBS, I couldn’t resist–and I do love that song 🙂
BUT we really ARE on different sides here, although I’ve never been a union member (except briefly, in the cab drivers’ union, when I drove a taxi while in grad school).
Stella hasn’t failed. they just shut down one plant.
‘The judge found that the factory’s owners, Brynwood Partners, had no good cause to fire the workers, particularly since they had offered to come back to work without conditions. Bear in mind, the strikers have not been striking for raises, but to keep Brynwood from cutting their pay and benefits to finance their “reorganization.” ‘
-Village Voice
Strike-Breaking Bronx Stella D’Oro Factory Shuts Down a Day Early
By Roy Edroso, Friday, Oct. 9 2009 @ 11:57AM
stella failed because some corporation bought it, sold it,leveraged it irresponsibly , cost costs and methods and product deteriorated and people stopped buying. But plenty of bankers got big money on all the deals.
I call bullshit that the average worker was making $30,000. I saw the eight weeks in a story back then. I don’t remember any story telling us what their salaries were.
I think the average Stella D’oro worker was making like 30K a year btw.
I think Stella D’Oro workers overplayed their hand. But again- the mining industry proved once again why we still need unions. I don’t necessarily like them or all their methods, but without them the workplace would be a 19th century nightmare still.
8 weeks vacation, Dave?
I call bullshit. Where exactly does it say that?