Coca-Cola bottlers and warehouse workers reject contract (CA)

[struggle4progress]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A union official says nearly 2,000 workers at Coca-Cola facilities around Southern California will resume a week-long strike.

Bottlers and warehouse workers have rejected a five-year contract hammered out earlier this week.

A Teamsters official says truck drivers, who did approve the contract yesterday, will remain on strike in solidarity with the bottlers and warehouse employees. <snip>

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3427949&nav=9qrxaczA

[thoughtanarchist]

1. I wish there was a United Tech Workers Union...

feels like techies are loosing ground with salary / benefits since 2000.

[okieinpain]

2. oh no. see the techies thought that because they have their

ba's, and mcse's papers that they were above all the other dumb workers. I heard on more then one occasion that unions were not needed because of federal workers rights.

then these same dumb asses turned around and voted for bush, guess they never invision that they could be sold like everybody else.

[thoughtanarchist]

3. pfffft.

you got this entire demographic pegged!

:crazy:

[Sgent]

4. I think the unions are equally at fault on this one

Although I think there is a place for unions in the tech worker industry, the unions haven't made a very good case.

Tech workers are not going to respond well, until they have fully bought into the union message, that truckers have much to do with them. In a lot of ways they are correct.

Unions should have approached the entire issue differently. Instead of pointing to pension changes at IBM and stock option downgrades at Microsoft and other tech companies, they were in many cases on the opposite side of the workers. In this environment, who can blame many of the workers for the way they think.

I'm not conviced that the labor union market, such as it is now, can represent knowledge workers well. I haven't seen any coherant unionization message for physicians for instnace, although huge swaths of them are employed and have de facto created their own unions in many cases.

[struggle4progress]

5. Strike slows flow of Coca-Cola products

By GRETCHEN LOSI/Staff Writer

VICTORVILLE — High Desert soda lovers may soon find slim pickin's on the Coca-Cola shelves of their local market.

The company's main products, Coke, Diet Coke and Dr. Pepper will be readily available, but the more obscure products may soon disappear.

This comes in the wake of union negotiations gone sour, creating a week-long strike involving 2,000 workers at Coca-Cola facilities around Southern California.

Officials from Albertson's Supermarket in Victorville said the strike has caused supplies of Dasani Water and Nestea to evaporate from store shelves. <snip>

http://www.vvdailypress.com/2005/111790118313534.html

[gate of the sun]

6. maybe they shouldn't work for the sob's

think what they are doing in India? They care only about selling their enamel rotting juice and making money.