Dave Sulewski retired from United several years ago and he has been keeping in touch with me via e-mail for a while. For those that remember Dave he is doing well. Dave has been letting me know what has been happening with a strike on a small office furniture manufacturer where he lives in upper Michigan. Dave has been supportive of these strikers and felt their story needed to be told. Here is a recent article on the attempts by the Union to prevail in a decertification that happened during the eleven month strike. I ask that you pay attention to the comments following the article. It's hard to accept the fact that one readers only concern was the hut the strikers erected as protection from the elements. Her thought was the hut was an eyesore in this tourist town. She had no regard for the fact that her neighbors lost their livelihood.
What does this have to do with us and why should we care? Labor has been getting kicked around for some time now, at least since the PATCO strike under Regan. We need legislative help. The Teamsters are asking we support the Employee Free Choice Act, and I believe this is a step we must take to restore the rights of the working person in this country. Or we could continue the status quo and slowly be reduced to taking whatever the corporate world deems we are worth. That's not very appealing to me.
