There is a labor dispute going on at a Cooper Tire plant in Findlay, Ohio. In late November, when the United Steelworkers rejected a contract offer from management, the company locked out approximately 1,000 unionized workers.
On Saturday, one of the replacement workers was beaten with something “similar to a baseball bat” and hospitalized. However, according to the Toledo Blade, police do not think the labor dispute has anything to do with the beating:
A Cooper Tire replacement worker was beaten by an object similar to a baseball bat over the weekend, police say.
Bobby Sellers, 26, of Leicester, N.C., was in the Town Place Suites parking lot, 2501 Tiffin Ave., about 8 p.m. Saturday when a man, described by police as tall and white, hit Mr. Sellers several times, authorities say.
Mr. Sellers was taken to Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center for treatment.
Police say they do not believe Mr. Sellers’ employment had anything to do with the attack. [Emphasis added.]
Readers may recall just a few short months ago, when a non-union, Toledo-business owner was shot at his home as he interrupted a vandal spray painting ‘SCAB’ on his vehicle. So far, there have been no arrests in that case either. [Findlay, Ohio is a mere 50 miles South of Toledo.]
Given the massive amount of union funds that poured into defeating Issue 2 (or SB5) last month, it is safe to say that these victims of (alleged) union violence will recover from their (alleged) union-inflicted wounds faster than Ohio as a state will recover from the unions.
Related:
- Ohio Business Owner Terrorized, Shot For Being Non-Union
- Ohio layoffs spike in November
- Ohio Public Employee Union Perks Cause Layoffs – Yahoo! News
- » One Month Later, Ohio Voters Are Starting to Understand Why They Should Have Supported SB5
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We are descending into anarchy.
kipling (Diary) Thursday, December 15th at 6:24PM EDT (link)If the authorities will not do their job or, as in some cases, they favor the union thugs against workers, then we have descended from the rule of law to the law of the jungle.
I am sure if some workers busted the head of a few union thugs, then the police would be more concerned and the White House might even launch a federal investigation. In fact, I am afraid that is exactly what Mr. Obama wants.
Our choice is to live in fear and be preyed upon by union thugs or to risk the wrath of the federal government.
Our President has lost his legitimacy. He no longer secures the rights of the citizenry but encourages evil to prey upon them. He is not a terror to the evil doer but the encourager.
It's a part of his plan to destroy the U.S. from the inside.
avagreen Thursday, December 15th at 7:53PM EDT (link)Spawn, he is.
Hold on…….my cat just walked across my keyboard. Think he’s just bought something from ebay or something……..be right back……
Rick Perry STILL! doesn’t have or need blood. He is filled with magma.
Rick Perry uses his bare hands to hunt.
Countdown Until Obama Leaves Office.
Sometimes I wonder if the descentinto the lawof the jungle would be as bad a thing as we think...
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Thursday, December 15th at 11:04PM EDT (link)Just an odd thought that sometimes pops back into mind:
The people who so abuse the rule of law, that so play the game of not caring about the law and using the system against itself might be the first and foremost victims of the vast majority of law abiding citizens if society as a whole went straight to the law of the jungle.
Would the “law of the jungle” mindset last or would we dust ourselves off, reset and reboot into something better after cleaning house?
Or would it be the beginning of a long dark night in the history of
man?
I keep coming to the thought that the law of unintended consequences will bite those most deeply who let themselves be blinded by their ideology and the prejudices they cannot admit they have.
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I wonder the same things too.
earlgrey (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 8:53AM EDT (link)When only one side is playing by the rules, than what good are the rules.
There is no possibility of 'reset' - only 'self destruct'
Dave_A (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 10:04AM EDT (link)The fantasy of a ‘reset’ is completely contradicted by history…
If the US descended into ‘law of the jungle’, decent citizens would be the first victims, rather than forming a wave of avenging heroes…
It’s the folks who have killed before & are willing to do so again who would ‘rule’ – we’d become a military dictatorship at BEST, and a third-world thug-ocracy at worst…
The result would be a dark age worse than the one after Rome, not a new beginning…
Economic illiteracy does not serve our cause – seeing inflation where there is none, claiming ‘the deficit’ is raising the price of oil, or adhering to conspiracy theories such as the notion that the Fed’s purpose is to enable government spending….
The truth is just as damning to the Democrats – namely that their policies are the reason that the very ‘speculators’ (futures traders) they demonize are bidding higher prices for oil.
dcacklam, Do you write Hallmark cards?
kipling (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 11:18AM EDT (link)I am not saying I disagree but that was a little slap of reality for the morning. : )
Sometimes the best I think we can hope for is a breakup of the United States with Texas becoming a Republic again.
I don't think you'd like how that ends....
Dave_A (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 1:32PM EDT (link)There’s a long-standing precedent that any sovereign nation must uphold: No home-territory leaves a nation without war. Colonies? Sure… But not contiguous homeland….
This is doubly true for any of the states that joined the 1860 rebellion – any claim to sovereignty was forfeit at Appomattox.
There is also no way any individual state will be more successful than the union as a whole – we hang together, or we all hang separately.
Dooming the entire population of the present USA to a 3rd-world existance, via breakup of the Union, is something worth fighting against…
Granted, even if the Union won such a war, the US would be worse off than before it started this time (A/O better off, like the last time)….
But that worse off wouldn’t be as bad as the sheer hell of a fractured union….
Economic illiteracy does not serve our cause – seeing inflation where there is none, claiming ‘the deficit’ is raising the price of oil, or adhering to conspiracy theories such as the notion that the Fed’s purpose is to enable government spending….
The truth is just as damning to the Democrats – namely that their policies are the reason that the very ‘speculators’ (futures traders) they demonize are bidding higher prices for oil.
I would have to disagree dcacklam
kipling (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 5:56PM EDT (link)Sovereign nations may attempt to uphold the precedent you cited, but world history is full of the rise and fall of nations. The modern nation-state is a relatively recent invention. And even since its inception, nation-state rise and fall, gain and lose territory.
I would agree that it would very likely mean war but I would rather fight than go down to the liberal machine. The question is what is the point of no return. Do we rebel when they come for the guns or at some point before? If it ever comes to that.
I would also point out that it is not 1860 any more. The sovereignty lost at Appomattox can be regain on another battlefield. Nor are the scales of industry and might so imbalanced as they were then.
If the liberals and big government conservatives continue to control Washington, they will come a point when the red states will have to cut the dead weight or sink with the liberal ship.
Nor will the breakup of the Union necessarily doom the entire population to 3rd world status. It might actually strengthen some of the states. California might actually reform if it could not count on plundering the national treasury.
Regardless, how could a fractured union be worse than your scenario of “a dark age worse than the one after Rome”?
BTW...
Dave_A (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 1:35PM EDT (link)Morning for you… Not quite morning in Afghanistan.
2304 now, over here on the COP….
Economic illiteracy does not serve our cause – seeing inflation where there is none, claiming ‘the deficit’ is raising the price of oil, or adhering to conspiracy theories such as the notion that the Fed’s purpose is to enable government spending….
The truth is just as damning to the Democrats – namely that their policies are the reason that the very ‘speculators’ (futures traders) they demonize are bidding higher prices for oil.
BTW...dcacklam
kipling (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 5:57PM EDT (link)When did Hallmark open a card factory in Afghanistan?
Globalization I guess. : )
Seriously, stay safe and thanks for your service.
Communist
jqp123 Saturday, December 17th at 1:30PM EDT (link)kipling&dcackham great dialog on what if..It is abundantly clear that Communism has made a foothold within the nature and structure of these United States. Not only have they made strides within in government, with the election of Obama, but with the heads of the Unions and the creation of front groups that mock Sustainability and the green movement by forcing radical change to re-distribute wealth, with this re-distribution comes the part that the occupy is so against..GREED–but knowinly has allowed the very people they are against to lead them,- adbusters.Tides+Soros + Unions.. To counter act is to identify the intruders, our 60′s radical have grown up and follow ‘drop the radical pose-for the radical ends’, which they have done, ss with Van Jones, hiding is not what they are doing, the American people have been dumbed down to look the other way when these radical communists speak to our youth. Expose at every opportunity! Bill Ayers-Cloward@Pivin-Elliot Adams-Senia Barragon-Norm Chomsky-Carl Davidson-Bill Fletcher Jr.-Bert Gaskof-Tom Hayden the list is extensive. Then there are the groups Acorn-P4O-SDS-MDS-CPUSA-COCDS-DSA………Well u get the idea..the Democratic Party has been comprimised!
Is this getting any press in Ohio?
earlgrey (Diary) Thursday, December 15th at 7:35PM EDT (link)Is there any way for this issue to get press? Are there any political leaders in Ohio sympathetic to anti-union cause thar are still popular?
The story was from the Toledo Blade...
LaborUnionReport (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 10:47AM EDT (link)Other than that, not that I’ve seen. However, because it is a labor dispute and the victim is a replacement worker, I wouldn’t expect it to get a lot of play unless there was someone killed.
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And I am sure that this has nothing to do with the fact
rickbull Thursday, December 15th at 7:37PM EDT (link)that the police officers belong to a union . . .
WE ARE THE 53% (who actually pay taxes).
Ditto!
wumingren Friday, December 16th at 9:19AM EDT (link)That was the first thing that came to mind. Remember also that violence connected to union organizing is exempted from prosecution. So, if you get your kneecaps smashed for not signing your card, there’s nothing you can do about it. At the same time, if you were to go break the kneecaps of the union organizers, you’d be whisked off to jail quicker than spit.
Ditto ditto
nhbuckeye Friday, December 16th at 10:01AM EDT (link)Not only did I think the same thing, I began to wonder about the ethics of having a unionized police force. Since they have a vested interest in protecting other unions, can we trust the police to do their duty under the circumstances of union violence? Take it a step further. Can we trust other elected officials (prosecutors, sheriffs, etc) to do their duty in regards to combating union crimes when they may have taken union money in campaign contributions? It seems to me that without the watchdog of the press (which seems, generally, to suck up to unions), we don’t have much power as a society to combat this corruption.
"Thuggery"
redpenny Friday, December 16th at 6:31AM EDT (link)(if that’s a good word) is apparently alive and well in Ohio.Is assault no longer a crime?Unions,in general, are a blight on society. The time for extortion,under the guise of collective bargaining has long since reached it’s level of dimishing return.All states should have right to work laws on the books.Enough already with the problems caused by self serving unions!!!
Don’t bother: the moderators tossed me out on my racist posterior already.
When
gunslingr45 Friday, December 16th at 8:29AM EDT (link)I drive to my daughters in Pennsylvania in April I swear I am going by way of Ky. Don’t want to spend a DIME there!
“For those who have fought for it freedom has a sweet taste the protected will never know”
What justice now?
justandordinary Friday, December 16th at 8:46AM EDT (link)So the Ohio Police won’t pursue this as union thuggery. And the US justice department wouldn’t prosecute the thugs outsides the election poles. But they are prosecuting any law enforcement person who is trying to protect us from illegal aliens? I think we’ve lost our country and have now become the old Soviet Union. Obama has divided this country. If we don’t get him out of office, our country is doomed.
I Have Coopers on My Cars
wumingren Friday, December 16th at 9:28AM EDT (link)But I’lll never buy Coopers again. I will not aid and abet the union thugs by continuing to purchase the products they make. Better to drive the bums out on the street than to buy the products that give them the power to be such thugs. When I see those “Proudly Union Made” stickers on stuff, I just don’t buy it on principle. I know I’m probably buying some stuff that is union made, but I do make an effort to buy non union stuff. I won’t be buying anything that these gorillas are thumping their chests over it.
Look for the non-union label?
earlgrey (Diary) Friday, December 16th at 9:16PM EDT (link)Surely we have not yet reached a point where unions are so reviled that this would be a good publicity stunt, but it might be something to consider for conservative circles.
I’d like to know that there were now employees bullied or extorted from in the creation of the products that i buy. I’d also lIke to know that the price I pay for the products I buy does not include a contribution to the Democrat party.