Strike affecting Coke deliveries despite contingency plan

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/425763_cokestrike26.html

Thursday, August 26, 2010

By JOHN FLICK and KOMO-TV STAFF

Anger is mounting among the 500 Coca-Cola employees who walked off their jobs as the ripple effects of the strike are spreading across the Puget Sound area.

Seeing the company utilizing temporary workers in their absence, the workers who decided to strike amid a deadlock in negotiations are irked, and unafraid to show it.

The strikers minced no words as they addressed the temporary, non-union drivers pulled out of the company's Bellevue plant.

"What's up, you coward? Do you sleep at night? Look at these guys in the eye," said one worker.

"Scabs are just coming in from anywhere and taking food from our family's table. They're coming in, and it's just not right at all," said Shawn O'Neill, a union employee.

Some of the company's managers hit the delivery route on Wednesday, but temporary workers took over on Thursday.

FULL story at link.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Now they have done it.

Wars we can take.
losing jobs, houses, we can take.
But no diet Coke?????????
People will be up in arms, I tell ya.