LabourStart headline - Source: NY Times

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The 10-year-old plant employs a mix of permanent and long-term temporary workers. Some employees have complained that lower-paid temporary workers jeopardize job security and depress overall wages.

That is the plan and it is working all over, in every industry and service sector. Better be careful, in Mississippi they got no heart - so the unions better show none, either.

That is the plan and it is working all over, in every industry and service sector. Better be careful, in Mississippi they got no heart - so the unions better show none, either.

Very much the same here with the BMW plant. Turnover among the so-called permanent workers is very high, those krauts snap a very mean whip. As for the temps, they can be 'temp' indefinately and then gone in a heartbeat. A couple years ago there was a model change and the temps were fired wholesale, then had to re-apply at starting wages. Yet that is what passes for the 'best jobs in the area'. Gonna take some real 'steel' to organize these 'right to work' states.

Gonna take some real 'steel' to organize these 'right to work' states. Right. It is reminiscent of the twenties and thirties, as far as the row we have to hoe; but we can see it's been done before and we can see the mistakes made. Remember, the auto industry was unionized in the deepest depths of the Great Depression - it was hard sledding, but it got done.