mah- Cat

HitchtedIn2006

Woot Woot! Cat posing '10 profits! Things are looking up again.

Now if only the UAW and Cat can agree on a contact so no one strikes March 1. 

mah482

No kidding about the union contacts! DH has warned me that it's possible he may be working -- A LOT -- if they go on strike.

HitchtedIn2006

DH didn't get an contingency job. Will be working the same amount of time. Boss thinks he's "too important" or something like that. Kinda wished he did get a contingency job so we can tackle finishing the basement or something crazy. ALthough I will not be seeing a bunch of friends if the strike happens.

kmjarvey

I hope they don't strike. That'd be a PITA to deal with. At DH's company, the management suspected a strike to happen so they locked out the union before it could happen. They've now been locked out for over 2 years. For awhile they had all the scientists and engineers working 12 hour shifts in the plant. Ugh. At least now they've been replaced with temps but it's still a mess.

HitchtedIn2006

I'm kinda hoping they don't strike either... but they have a month left. They last had a strike in the 90's, so we'll see.

I'm not a very pro-union person. I think they had their time and place, but aren't as needed in the 21st century.

mah482

DH said the union voted yesterday for the right to vote to strike. Does that make sense? They voted that they can vote to strike later.

HitchtedIn2006

Yeah I read about that in the Peoria paper. But saying that their could be a vote to strike doesn't sound great.

I would like to tell the union that the last 2-3 years shouldn't all be blamed on Cat... the world had economic problems... I don't want that to factor into all their decisions.

mah482

A strike would be terrible.  On a + note (if there can be one), it would mean paid OT for the hubster, which we could really use considering we're having a child this fall.