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To: LindyBill who wrote (79077)	10/20/2004 12:31:36 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793917

Can't Win For Losing 13-year strike at world's largest walnut plant could end ...Teamsters International President James P. Hoffa called the strike one of the union's "epic battles" during a rally at the plant in 2000: "Someday they will look back here, at the land of John Steinbeck and 'The Grapes of Wrath,' and say ... 'The workers at Stockton's Diamond plant, they are the ones who stood up,'" Hoffa told the workers. Yeah. Typical union position. A few more pyhrric victories like this: Workers at the plant took a 30 percent pay cut in 1985 during tough times, and say they expected to be repaid as the cooperative's finances improved. The union's leadership ordered the walkout when Diamond offered a dime-an-hour raise and a bonus package in 1991. But the cooperative already had begun training replacements, and automated machinery had made many of the laborers' jobs unnecessary over the years. The cooperative prospered despite the strike, and now argues the employees would have been better off taking the bonuses it offered. Wages are competitive, with top workers making nearly $20 an hour, and benefits add more than a third to base pay, Diamond said in its statement. And maybe union membership nationwide can finally plunge below the five percent mark. Posted by The Daily Pundit