From BreitBart:
Fired Union Workers Protest NYC Hotel Hosting A-List Celebrities for Met Gala
From the article: Fired union workers protested The Surrey Hotel in New York City, where A-list celebrities were staying before making their way to the red carpet at the Met Gala on Monday.
In 2020, back in the bad old COVID pandemic days, no one went outside without a Haz-Mat suit and a mandatory 90 day quarantine right afterwards. I chose not to follow these rules and so was killed by Covid. The funeral was last week, and the wake finally ended yesterday. I'm meeting with my favorite bail bondsman today.
Back to my post. The Surrey went belly up, and about 100 workers got to sleep in the next day. The place got mothballed, and eventually it reopened under the Corinthia Hotels brand, which is actually a company called Reuben Brothers, who have their home office in Geneva, Switzerland.
Of note, the 100 workers didn't get their jobs back.
Meantime a whole tribe of A-List Superstar Pretty People checked into the hotel on their way to the annual fundraising gala at the Met Museum, where they'll be wined and dined and give away millions of their hard earned dollars to the charity of their choice so the Met can keep the lights on.
The workers who got fired resent this. I'm certain that a few of them think that they, individually, need that money more than the Met does, and they're probably right. But! - and this is important - but the hundred unemployed aren't their problem. They don't own the circus, it isn't their monkey, and it isn't their problem. So what, you say? Well said, say I.
I'm seeing too much of this. I'm retired, but when I was a poor working stiff I got fired. The faggot (true story) I worked for called me a complete failure, and that was that. I went down the street to a rival company, and in six months I was an unqualified success.
My point is that I did something about my situation. Unemployed, I went looking for a job and found one. I've worked in any number of cities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, and East of the Mississippi. I'm not alone in this.
If you want to protest, then protest, but the company doesn't owe you a damn' thing. The same thing happened years ago with General Motors in Janesville, WI.
In 2008, General Motors closed its Janesville Assembly Plant in Wisconsin, which had been operating since 1919 and was the oldest GM plant at the time. The closure devastated the local economy, as the plant employed around 1,200 workers when it ceased production in December 2008, down from a peak of 7,000 workers in 1970.
So the plant had been in steady decline since 1970 and expired in 2008. What did the employees expect? Go out and get a job! Move out of the big apple if you have to, but get a decent job with a decent, stable company and make sure you develop a set of marketable skills, because you are your own responsibility.
Mad Jack kicks the soap box into the corner of the basement and pours two fingers of bourbon into a glass.
4 comments:
I was fired after 35 plus years from a job. I was making top wages and was covered under FMLA, and the company did not like it.
They sent me for a random drug test and said that I tested positive for alcohol, when I don't even drink. But little guys can't fight big corporations.
I found work, and did some pretty nasty things until I was able to retire.
But I still have a bad attitude towards the company that I helped build.
1) The folks at the Met Gala are bleeding heart liberals who claim to love the working man. The former employees of the previous owners are trying to establish they are the working class. They are wasting there time.
2) I would bet that the closing of the GM plant had very little to do with workers and lots to do with bad management decisions. Making full size SUV during high gas prices is not a worker issue.
Our story up here was Zeidler Forest Products. Back in the early 80s they faced an existential financial crisis: the management told the union they could negotiate, or they could turn out the lights, close the doors and shut down the business. The union told them to get stuffed.
The next day they were locked out and the union set up a picket line. In the following months the company’s assets were slowly (over the course of months) sold off as the banksters and buzzards took care of the company’s corpse. A year later the flunkies basically picketed an empty lot and empty warehouse/admin buildings. 5 years later there was STILL a solitary union slob out there with a picket sign. Even the buzzards were gone. Eventually the property sold and a new unrelated operation moved in and the loser got the punt. I don’t get it…? He could have worked all those years…but picketed instead? Even when the company was dead and long gone…? How does that work?
*Filthie pours 4 fingers of Jack’s bourbon into a slurpee cup…*
Pigpen: I'm really sorry that happened to you. Yours isn't the first case I've seen or heard about like that. Me, I would have contemplated a shooting spree, or maybe taking the case to local media. But like you say, what are you going to do? You can't stand alone against a fortune 50 company.
Gerry: From what I learned, I'd say there was enough guilt on both sides for bad behavior. Regardless, the plant was headed downhill, and unemployment in the metro area hit 25% for over a year. I'd guess that if I could find a job at home, it's time to move.
Glen: I've heard of that happening. My own dear mother taught high school - the school principal and his flunkies didn't like mom much because she was outspoken and did her own thinking - so they gave her all the problem kids. Mom never had a problem with any of them. They all spoke respectfully to her, and when I asked her what the secret was, she explained that she treated them with respect. "Kids respond to that," she told me. But then there was the time when two girls got into a serious fight in the hall, and mom waded in and broke it up. One girl wouldn't quit, so Mom tossed her to the floor and sat on her until she'd behave herself. And that was Mom.
The school cried poverty, then the union had a look at the books and found out the school was lying like a rug. So - STRIKE! I used to drive past the pickets and honk my horn in support. Go Mom! The union won, and it was justified.
Many times it isn't. Workers think they should get more money because they need it, not because they earned it. That's just wrong.
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