Picketers Armed With Knives, Bats and Clubs Arrested at OH Aluminum Plant

Maybe they should have held signs and chanted?

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB87OUI22E.html

Ten striking factory workers armed with knives, bats and clubs were arrested after attempting to block vans entering an Ormet Corp. aluminum plant, police said.

The picketers were charged Friday with violating a court order requiring them to stay at least 2,000 feet away from the plant's entrance, Monroe County Sheriff Manifred Keylor said in a statement.

Additional charges of resisting arrest and assaulting law enforcement officers were pending, the statement said.

Police said they seized various weapons from the picketers, including a sledgehammer, an ax, knives, baseball bats and wooden clubs.

Danny Longwell, a local steelworkers union representative, said picketers blocked the vans because they believed they were carrying replacement workers into the plant on Friday. A call to the union seeking additional comment Saturday was not immediately returned.

it will be a long winter, a long lean winter...

People think that Roe v. Wade is what the RWers have their real sights set on, but they're wrong. Labor is where the real crosshairs are.


MDN

so it begins, the shoe dropped today, in more than one sense...

One of the guys was named John Brown.

;-)

And if this was the case, it woudl be missed by the thugs in charge... all apololigies to any other thugs.

Crush the union movement, gut public services for the poor, run the economy into the ground, then use the military to absorb the newly-dispossessed. Then start more wars ...


MDN

is that they usually break when you make contact wiht the enemy... but this would be a well known axiom by those with military experience or those who chose to defer to those with such. None in the administration qualifies as any of the above.

So this may be a mmistake on their part, and they may yet rue the day...

property for pennies on the dollar..

Calm down everyone, it's just capital returning to the rightful owners...the rich..
They just let us "use it for a few generations"...they want it back now.:(

Crushing unions, getting total control of all media, co-opting the education of the next generation...It's all just part of the longterm plan..

See the following URL:

http://news-register.net/news/story/1128202004_new01.asp

Aluminum prices are way up,as are all commodities.

cheap, American made, and just as effective at hardball. Boston this year, damn!

Our Guys.

Driven to despair.

Acting like thugs. Confirming the worst fears of both the Right ... and our own.

Is this what it looks like? ... darkness falling in America?

--p!

the 1880s. This is what it took for you to enjoy a 40 hour week

You think those labor activists were thugs? You think these boys are thugs?

... they'll turn back the clock to the 1880's once again.


MDN

Was it thuggery or Keeping and Bearing Arms? No matter what anyone says, the Consensus Opinion will be that it's thuggery. The Boss Man no longer has to send his own goons out. Just cultivate enough fear in the minds of his underlings, and they'll do their own self-destruction.

The guys carrying weapons are always the bad guys now, no matter what the motivation. This isn't a moral judgement I've made, it's the way the public morality has changed.

But it's not "just" a black eye for "us" ... it's an indicator that things have started to go seriously wrong. Just as they did during the Industrial Revolution.

--p!

"it's the way the public morality has changed"

TV morality maybe, not the public morality of Americans. Many, many Americans - Democratic Republican and otherwise, can and will sympanthize with these guys. They didn't do ANYTHING other than protest their jobs being outsourced.

you to think.

They also want you to believe this was thugery of the highest order

Oh welcome back to the glory days of the 1880s.... damn Santayana... I really did not want to relieve this again!

who wielded bats and sticks. Guess which was more effective? Only when the boss fears the worker (instead of the other way around) is there real and lasting change for the working class.

The 40 hour week and vacation time did not come because workers were polite and picketed with the approval of the ruling class. NO! We have the few rights as workers because people were ANGRY and FOUGHT tooth and nail for their rights. Those people would be ASHAMED at how complacent all workers are today.

Just because most members of the working class work in office buildings does not mean there is not exploitation. We may not work in factories but the same type of exploitation takes place.

at least we hope so

That will give you a good picture of what's on its way.

knives, a sledgehammer, an ax, all standard normal tools, are now "weapons" when some guy doesn't want his job outsourced has them in his car. And a baseball bat? They probably have A Rod on the terrorist list!

> knives, a sledgehammer, an ax, all standard normal tools,
> are now "weapons" when some guy doesn't want his job outsourced
> has them in his car.

MAJOR question arises here: the article *implies* that these articles were being carried or brandished, but it doesn't actually *say* that. So one guy has some tools in his car (whether for his job or for his home) : a sledge and an ax. Were they using burn-barrels to keep warm, by any chance (either this day or on previous days)? Any wood-splitting involved in that, perchance? As to "knife", when I worked in the trades there wasn't a day in two years that I didn't have some sort of knife on me. The job required it. A lot of guys carry pocketknives, too. More detail is needed on this one. As to a baseball bat, again, was this being carried/brandished, or was it just in one of the striker's cars?

These questions make a BIG difference in what *actually* happened vs. what the story *implies* happened.


MDN

According to local TV news reports: (1) rather than direct-deposit the workers' paychecks this week, the company decided to have them in the mail by Monday; and, (2) when a retiree's wife happened to need to be hospitalized, only THEN did workers learn that the company had cancelled retirees' medical benefits.

this is only the beginning.

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Many of the guys in my hometown work for Ormet. It isn't 2000 feet, btw, its 2000 yards. That's right, they have to picket more than a mile away from the plant entrance.

On edit:

One of the picketers was also run over by a car attempting to enter the plant. The driver of the car was released on bail, but the picketers arrested were being held without bond.

Is this an SMWIA local? Do you know which one? I clicked around but couldn't find anything other than the AP story.

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