typical union idiots, the company makes too much money???? Do these jerks think that business are run to go broke??? I’m sure these union dupes make more than they will make when the plant closes and they will be begging for work at walmart…

bobbyjo sounds like a rejected union member wannabe

Bobbyjo or is it Booby Jo
There are two kinds of people in the world, those in the union and those who wish they could be. You are the wannabe. Get a life, you probably work at Wally- mart

Unions really need to be banned if at all possible. Do your job and you wouldn’t need a union rep. Oh you want to go on strike. By all means go on strike. You won’t get a paycheck and we will hire “replacements” while you complain that you have it oh so bad. And when you company has to close because your union demanded ridiculous salaries and insane benefits, I will wave to you when you are a greeter at Walmart.

i just hope that noe of them 50 million sitinking mexicans hear there jobs availlable cause they’ll be right over there undercutting there wages by 50%. oly in amerimexico !!!!

union idiots. I guess they will TEACH the company a lesson. I hope they all lose their jobs so people that will appreciate a job get hired. What a bunch of losers

Idea, perhaps you could get even by starting your own company, hire all of these union folks, give them all of your profits and drive this guy right out of business. I wish the whole world was one big union, that way I could spend $20 on a loaf of bread. Nothing would please me more. And Mr William Campbell, Ann’s SPELLING was fine, it was your UNION education that has you thinking otherwise.

UNIONS have taken it way to far…. Keep striking you selfish idiots… and then cry when your job is in India….

democrats and sissys. same thing.

I work at GWS and there are valid points to both sides. Regardless what the Company said they did lock us out. This dispute needs to be settled, it effects both the Company and Employees for our future. Manufacturing in this Country is a dying trade with faults from way more than Unions for sure

I come from an all Union family. The Unions use to be good but now there out of controll. The workers are overpaid thay have a soft seat in life . Look at job performance it is below standard. The Union workers dont care because it is hard to firer a Union employee. I think we should bust up the Unions and get people who truely want too work for a decent wage. Union workers are over paid and a Big bunch of Cry Babies.. I think if they go on Strike they should not get Goverment help . Why should the tax payers keep them when thay dont want to pay a little more for their Benefits and increases. Everyone else is paying more. Do away with the Unions and Obama while were at it..

The comments made by the union workers at the General Wire Spring Company are an example of what’s wrong in the U.S.A. and why so many American jobs have been lost to foreign competition. A company doesn’t have the right to be at least somewhat profitable??? If a business is not profitable, it would certainly not have a need to have employees working for it. I didn’t have to go to the Wharton School of Business to understand that basic fact. The behavior of those union people is an embarrassment to America. Absolutely shameful!!!

It could be worse you, you could ha….nivermind.

II wonder if those union members are simply ignorant of the realities that exist in this country today, or if they’re just idiots altogether. I’m thinking it’s the latter. What a joke!. They’re not only hurting themselves but they are also hurting their families, who ARE more likely to be ignorant of the real situation. Those idiots should be ashamed of themselves, and their families of them.

Hey yuppies always remember there is good and bad in everything. I was a member of I.B.E.W local 5 electrical Union. Never had a strike pensions are doing well. Paid 70 percent to my health care. Had the best training available. Thank your great grandparents that might have done time in the mills that gave you what you have today

I have a couple of points for union idiots…Number one…companies exist not to provide you with jobs, not to give you a great pension and not to pay your healthcare, they exist to make money! profit! before you strike invest some of your own money in the company…take the same risk the owner does! Number two…I can’t wait until the moves of WI, OH and NJ spread to all the states and collective bargaining is banned! I agree with Joe there is good and bad in everything but you union yuppies need to learn your place in the business world.

By the way somebody needs to tell the Union Members on strike if they want a share of the profits invest in the company! just because the company makes money does not mean you get to make more, if the company is hurting and the economy is down can the unions get paid less; i mean, i’m just using the logic of the union member’s quotes from this article. somebody answer me that?

UGH. This makes me SICK. my dad works for GWS, and he WANTS to go back to work. problem is, his life will be made HORRIBLE by union people if he “crosses the line.” So, even though many, MANY of the workers at GWS don’t want to be on strike, they are forced into it for fear of their safety. so. not. fair. Pray for those guys who do not want to be out of work, but are because of the union. Like my dad, a lot of those workers KNOW how great they have it at GWS.

If the comments of “Concerned Daughter” don’t say it all!!!! After watching the news reports, including the bogus “dive” taken by that token union stooge pretending to be hit by a truck, I don’t know how that Concerned Daughter’s dad could even stomach being in the presence of his low life co-workers. Perhaps his knowing how well he has it at GWS, and caring more for his family than is obviously the case of most of his “brothers,” will offset the union stench that he will have to perpetually endure once he returns to work and continues to make a nice living at what seems to be a very good company. He should be understandably ashamed of his coworkers, and unions as a whole.

Why doesn’t General Wire Spring Company hire new workers who would LOVE to have the opportunity to put in an honest day’s work for what seems to be a more than honest day’s pay? If what the man said on TV is correct, that the workers are only asked to contribute 17% of their health care, I would gladly take that job, not even knowing what it pays, just so I could immediately save BIG BUCKS on what I’m currently paying in health care costs….and I thought I had it good!

My relative works at GWS and HE also wants to go back to work, like many of the other workers want to. But fears retalition for crossing the picket line. That first day the workers on strike attacked employee cars, causing damage. The union is lying whenever they are on the news. The company HAS NOT LOCKED ANY OF THE WORKERS OUT! That is lie number 1 they can go back to work at anytime. Lie number 2, that they have to pay 20% or more for there healthcare the company only raised it to 17%. But because the workers that are on strike are idiots the cost of healthcare could rise to 30% because the company was given a deadline by the health insurance company. The workers on strike do not seem to understand that the company cannot control that the healthcare company raised there prices. Lie 3 There has been no talk about UNION BUSTING. That was made up by the man who works for the union because he is affraid he will loose his job. He does not care about the workers of GWS or there families who pay the union dues that pay for his salary, he only cares about saving his own A$$! Also when on the news there is only one guy talking from the union who does not work at the company. Where is the shop’s union president and the committee?!?!?! They have all disappeared the cowards! They just like to get the workers all worked up, but not think of the damage they are doing to the workers, there families and the company that helps them pay there bills. I am not saying the company is perfect, no company is, they have there share of problems. BUT DO NOT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU!!!

I know someone that works at GWS and HE also wants to go back to work, like many of the other workers want to. But fears retalition for crossing the picket line. That first day the workers on strike attacked employee cars, causing damage. The union is lying whenever they are on the news.
The company HAS NOT LOCKED ANY OF THE WORKERS OUT! That is lie number 1 they can go back to work at anytime. Lie number 2, that they have to pay 20% or more for there healthcare the company only raised it to 17%. But because the workers that are on strike are idiots the cost of healthcare could rise to 30% because the company was given a deadline by the health insurance company. The workers on strike do not seem to understand that the company cannot control that the healthcare company raised there prices.
Lie 3 There has been no talk about UNION BUSTING. That was made up by the man who works for the union because he is affraid he will loose his job. He does not care about the workers of GWS or there families who pay the union dues that pay for his salary, he only cares about saving his own A$$! Also when on the news there is only one guy talking from the union who does not work at the company. Where is the shop’s union president and the committee?!?!?! They have all disappeared the cowards! They just like to get the workers all worked up, but not think of the damage they are doing to the workers, there families and the company that helps them pay there bills. I am not saying the company is perfect, no company is, they have there share of problems.
BUT DO NOT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU!!!

I guess these mean owners of GWS expect their work force to buy their own food ! The entitlement mentality of these union supporters is very apparant!!
Why, I wonder do they think they are entitled to NOT pay more for healthcare like the rest of the world??
In the past there may have been some need for intervention (because of un-fair labor practices- but from what I know about GWS they give their employees a better than fair wage….and not so bad work conditions….I agree with “sick of the strike” – DON’T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU BETTER THAN YOU DESERVE!!

Does anyone know or can share what kind of salaries these workers are making?

There are several job classifications there. They work a lot of overtime during the year depending on business conditions at the time, but never get their hours cut. They can make in excess of $20 an hour. There are third generation employees there because they can’t do better elsewhere. Two years ago, when the economy was in the tank, the company made a conscious decision not to lay anybody off. How quickly that was forgotten, or they are too stupid to realize how good they have it. Maybe what they need is a good dose of welfare!