Daily (more or less) commentary on news and events in Carbondale and the Southern Illinois region, with occasional excursions to other locales.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Good Reason to Move out of Metropolis
Did you know that Honeywell runs the only conversion plant in the world capable of distilling pure uranium? And it's located in southern Illinois, specifically Metropolis? And the workers have been on strike since June 24 over increases to their health insurance costs, mainly because workers in the field have a high rate of cancer? And that they they offered to work under the old contract while negotiations continued? And Honeywell chose to lock them out, preferring to use hastily trained replacement workers to replace workers with 40 years of experience working with radioactive material? Neither did I.
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This sounds like a job for... SUPERM-- no wait, for the union.
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