Hard economic times call for...a strike? There are, on average, about 4 people in my town huddled around a small fire, sitting in sling chairs amidst a gallery of picket signs, indicating they are on strike. I am unsure if these people are associated with the particular strike in the link above, but they were the reason I began this thread.
Alcoa, one of the world's largest producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina, has indicated that they will be cutting 13,500 jobs. There is an Alcoa plant on the outskirts of my town, which aids in quite a few jobs here.
Boeing is warning of layoffs coming this year, of an estimated 800 jobs.
With all these people being laid off of their jobs, mainly because of a suffering economy, how in the name of all that is holy can people go on strike because they don't want to pay for their own medical care???
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