Colombia Coal Rail Workers Vote to End Strike; Union Says Vote 'Illegal'

[Jackson]

Colombia Coal Rail Workers Vote to End Strike; Union Says Vote 'Illegal'

Hundreds of employees of Colombia's main railway who have been on strike for three weeks, halting more than half of the country's coal exports, voted Monday in favor of ending the walkout and returning to work, the head of the railway said.
Nonetheless, labor union leaders late Monday pledged to keep the strike alive, calling the vote illegal.

Peter Burrowes, president of the Fenoco railway, called for the vote late last week, saying he believed the voting would prove that most of the rank-and-file rail workers no longer supported the union-led strike. The workers, he said, wanted to start earning a paycheck again.

In a text message Monday to The Wall Street Journal, Burrowes said that of the 624 railway employees, 347 sent in a vote Monday. Of those, he said 12 of the votes came back blank while 335 voted "in favor [of] arbitration, and stopping the strike and going back to work."
The company needed for more than 50% to vote in favor of ending the strike for it to pass, so the vote count achieves that threshold. Burrowes said the coal trains could start operating again by the end of the week, while an independent arbitration court would resolve the labor dispute that led to the strike. The workers were asking for higher wages and more benefits.

Read more: Colombia Coal Rail Workers Vote to End Strike; Union Says Vote 'Illegal' | Fox Business

I’m sure the Union calls the vote illegal, and it probably is. But it certainly is a vote of NO CONFIDENCE in the union by the majority of its members. It will be interesting to see what happens at the end of the week.

 

[Publius1787]

Colombia Coal Rail Workers Vote to End Strike; Union Says Vote 'Illegal'

Hundreds of employees of Colombia's main railway who have been on strike for three weeks, halting more than half of the country's coal exports, voted Monday in favor of ending the walkout and returning to work, the head of the railway said.
Nonetheless, labor union leaders late Monday pledged to keep the strike alive, calling the vote illegal.

Peter Burrowes, president of the Fenoco railway, called for the vote late last week, saying he believed the voting would prove that most of the rank-and-file rail workers no longer supported the union-led strike. The workers, he said, wanted to start earning a paycheck again.

In a text message Monday to The Wall Street Journal, Burrowes said that of the 624 railway employees, 347 sent in a vote Monday. Of those, he said 12 of the votes came back blank while 335 voted "in favor [of] arbitration, and stopping the strike and going back to work."
The company needed for more than 50% to vote in favor of ending the strike for it to pass, so the vote count achieves that threshold. Burrowes said the coal trains could start operating again by the end of the week, while an independent arbitration court would resolve the labor dispute that led to the strike. The workers were asking for higher wages and more benefits.

Read more: Colombia Coal Rail Workers Vote to End Strike; Union Says Vote 'Illegal' | Fox Business

I’m sure the Union calls the vote illegal, and it probably is. But it certainly is a vote of NO CONFIDENCE in the union by the majority of its members. It will be interesting to see what happens at the end of the week.

Columbian unions are Marxists to the core with ties to Marxist FARC terrorists funded in part by Hugo Chavez. They are revolutionaries at heart, not union representatives, and their ideology trumps the welfare of their own workers to the point of becoming a slave to their union boss's. Columbia had restrictions on them until Obama refused to sign the Columbian free trade agreement unless they released the restrictions on socialism in their free economy. This is another reason why Chaves, Castro, Putin, and other (Socialist/Communist/Marxist/haters of America) regularly praise Obama and denounce his republican challengers.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Columbian unions are Marxists to the core with ties to Marxist FARC terrorists funded in part by Hugo Chavez. They are revolutionaries at heart, not union representatives, and their ideology trumps the welfare of their own workers to the point of becoming a slave to their union boss's.

So... it's a lot like what we have here.

 

[Publius1787]

Columbian unions are Marxists to the core with ties to Marxist FARC terrorists funded in part by Hugo Chavez. They are revolutionaries at heart, not union representatives, and their ideology trumps the welfare of their own workers to the point of becoming a slave to their union boss's.

So... it's a lot like what we have here.

Well, we have violent leftists/union protesters and union intimidation; however, threats against the lives of the employer’s families and kidnappings during union negotiations typically don't happen in the United States. Nor does the union call its Chavez funded terrorist buddies to come help. However, our president did help the unions of Columbia to become the violent political cesspool that it is today by refusing to sign the free trade agreement until Columbia gave the violent terrorist connected leftists trying to destroy capitalism by any means necessary more rights to destroy capitalism. This is the kind of stuff that the SEIU holds romantic nostalgia for.