Being personally involved in a battle against a company that is engaged in inflicting pain, suffering, and misery on a workforce that has served them for most of their lives has opened my eyes in general, to what is taking place in this nation today.
Working for Steinway musical for over 40 years and being forced to the street, I and many other lifelong workers have found ourselves in a battle of nearly 3 years now in a labor action against that company,
one of the longest strikes in the nation.
Corporate policys of taking death benfits away from long retired workers, failure to pay their shares of Cobra benfits premiuns , stoping some workers pension benfits,denying workers access to 401k benfits unless they resign ,and not allow some workers votes to count in a union decertificaction process are just some tactics used by this company.
Steinway CEO Dana Messina and his partner chairman of the board Kyle Kirkland were coworkers with the famous junk bond king Michael Milken back in their days at Drexal Burnham Lambert before they destroyed that company.
Morally Bankrupt executives like these , that reign down their evil policies of hate and destruction in the name of excessive corporate profit are declaring war on the worker.
It is time for other strong willed workers to stand and fight against the forces of evil corporate behavior instead of cowering , taking the bone and being thankful for it by executives like Messina who throw it.
Davidsk