Posted on 11/03/2010 2:01:35 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Perhaps I should have been more specific. The innocent in this scanario I feel quite badly for.
“. . . workers opposing the contract called the elimination of the fifth week of vacation a major stumbling block.”
Plenty of vacation time now.
How about some Breaking hot-dang GOOD news. 1000 jobs manufacturing Winchester ammo coming to Mississippi.
Thank you, you yankee union idiots. We can always use more ammo and jobs down here.
“I buy a lot of the Winchester value packs for sporting clays.”
You are fortunate, as my shottie won’t cycle those things at all reliably. The Federal brand competing value pack does work, which tells me that the Winchester shells are a bit scant on powder in comparison to the Federal shells.
I was just getting ready to go buy a few cases of 147gr OSM 9mm from Olin.
Alton....isn’t AMC aka old MAC command base there still ?
No doubt ammo will be better quality now with union gone.
May buy 3 cases now an tell em why.....
Stay safe.
Olin did the same thin Peterbilt of Madison, TN did a couple of years ago when, tired of union crap (two looooong strikew within 3 years), they decided to close the Madison plant permanently and move ALL the production to their NON-union Texas factory. Since the demand for trucks is waaaay down (from 92 trucks a day in Madison to 35), I am sure that the workers in Texas laid off from the downturn were more than happy to come back.
Will that ammo be big enough to kill a Black Bear?
I knew a FReeper would answer within 20 replies. Dang we're good.
My thoughts exactly.
If only we charged higher tariffs on Chinese ammo, these jobs could have been saved.
They needed to move.
Or at least a laptop theiving QB?
Gotta feel for Ole Miss students lately. Not only do they have to worry about their new QB stealing their laptop, now they have to worry about their new mascot stealing their pic-a-nic basket.
No, that’s not correct. If only we charged higher tariffs on urinal cakes from Pakistan, then these jobs would not have moved from Illinois to Mississippi.
Alton is one of those great little river towns that's hit hard times over the last few decades. It's a tourist town now but in days gone by they did lots of manufacturing as well as being a major Mississippi River Pilot hub. Barge traffic on that stretch of river is still very heavy.
It's also a beautiful place to boat, hunt, and fish. I've run that stretch of the Big Muddy a few times both on land and on water.
While I'm glad to see the Union take it in the shorts my State can ill afford to lose any more jobs. And Mrs. L and I have spent some wonderful weekends in that part of the State. People mostly have their heads screwed on straight believe it or not.
Interesting days my friend...
That’s awesome news! We are going to need some ammo plants in red country when the civil war breaks out.
It’s gonna be awesome....Winchester vs Green Shoots...LOL!!
LOL! I hope none of those union fools make the more to Mississippi looking for work. They would actually have to WORK!
If Ubama and the scumbag rats ever got their way, the entire country would be unionized and fully controlled by government regulation... Paid leave for tending to new babies, sick relatives and pets, mandatroy paid vacation, 35-hour work weeks, retire at 60 with full bennies, guaranteed no-fire employment if you remain with a company after the 6-month probationary period, etc., etc.
Any attempt at roll-backs and we could have national strikes and be as great as... France.
THAT is the ultimate goal of Ubama and the rats. ...to turn America into a Euro-style socialist welfare state.
I’m sure Masoli is being paid enough he doesn’t have to steal. Did you know Cam Newton was guilty of the same thing.
Cam Newton was arrested on Friday, November 21, 2008, on felony charges of burglary, larceny and obstruction of justice after allegedly purchasing a stolen laptop from a student at the University of Florida. He was subsequently temporarily suspended by the team after the laptop was in fact found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Newton
Trap shooters are a crabby bunch anyway... ;)
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