miltonalum, Do the math.

Quote "Union dues typically are 2 hours pay a month so if wages go down then yes dues go down."
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Union dues have nothing to do with hourly wage they wont go down unless the council votes them down.

Union dues typically are 2 hours pay a month so if wages go down then yes dues go down. It is hard to be mad at the Union since the members are the Union, the leadership is elected by the members and the members vote yes or no on the contract.

If it weren't for union labor, nonunion labor would still be working in sweatshops.

Very sad - a freeze for 7 years is ludicrous...a shorter freeze, sure. How pathetic that we have turned into a country where we simply beg for a teeny tiny crumb to be thrown our way and have others tell us to be grateful for it. Past generations of Americans fought hard and suffered to increase our pay and benefits and now we throw it all away. I'm not saying that things hadn't become inflated the other way (greed and unreasonnable demands on the part of workers - not just unionized ones either) but there must be a balance that is better than to bow down to threats of "take it or we go to another state or country!" Setting some very scary precedents.

mymaro, It's what we didn't look in, now the light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Mercury Marine's union busting tactics fall in line with what has been going on since Regan took control of air traffics. In the 1980's it was the meat packer's union that took a hit. Also, government is after the UAW, as sport utility vehicles were turned into dinosaurs by falsely inflated fuel prices.

You UAW"S, look in the mittor. you all took a 30% cut when you let the shop jobs go to lear[ seats] assembly[lsi] broadhead[ foam] etc. but that was ok just as they paid there dues

Druggie: UAW 95's contract ammendment was historic and had never been done by any other plant. GM used that as leverage over Spring Hill and Orion when choosing where the Spark would be awarded. You may not be a druggie but your ignorance makes you a POS all the same!

BigRoadie..I'm with you..but you'll never get thru to the Cretans..

Lost_city:
They should be ecstatic with their union. They should not have jobs right now. They voted no before. Perhaps the local 95 can learn a lesson from this. A job with lower pay beats no job at all, right?

tough call to not get a pay raise for 7 years while increasing health care costs, but by how much? I would be bummed at first, but I guess it pays to have a job, although downgraded for the next 7 years and for how long thereafter? Celebrate, NO, but not cry about losing your job I guess.

I hope these workers are happy with their Union. I wonder if they will have their Union dues reduced by 30%.

This is crazy. Oklahoma vs Wisconsin....for jobs. The winner will probably lose to Juarez, Mexico. Good luck folks. They just busted your union. Ronald Reagan lives.

JSOnline says: "Also as a result of the vote's outcome, it is likely that Mercury will keep its world headquarters in Fond du Lac, protecting about 1,000 jobs in addition to the 850 at the manufacturing plant."

Those 1,000 people are, of course, not in the union. Their jobs were in the hands of the union vote.

There's probably going to be a little celebrating in Fond du Lac this weekend.

Who gets a 30% pay cut, those who are layed off at the time of the vote, or those who are layed off at the time of the vote, and any who get layed off and called back in the next seven years?

It's the "Golden Rule", he who has the gold, makes the rules.
Mercury has the gold and the union finally figured that out...take what they offer or get nothing.
At least 850 will still have a job.