Cavalier you are high? CLT has been consistantly beating PIT in numbers in heavy, when they closed INT had 10 tracks in a 5 track hangar, what did you expect then?
You really need to learn your labor history!
Historical Event >> Trolley Strike August 25, 1919
Five men are killed and several more are wounded by police protecting Charlotte's streetcar barns against trolley workers who have walked off the job in a labor dispute, called a "strike." Two weeks earlier streetcar operators demanded higher wages and group representation by a union. When the Southern Public Utilities Company hired replacement workers, called "strikebreakers," violence began. The trolley strike is the worst violence in Charlotte's labor history.
ROANOKE RAPIDS, North Carolina (AP) -- A textile mill where labor organizers claimed the first major union victory in the South, an effort that inspired the 1979 movie "Norma Rae," is closing this summer.
WestPoint Stevens Inc. said Friday that to stay efficient in a global economy, it would have to close its towel-making complex in Roanoke Rapids and lay off 320 workers.
"If there was ever an icon of that industry, this was it," said Harris Raynor of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Technical Employees.
At least 150 such textile plants have closed in the Carolinas in the last five years, ending thousands of jobs.
In 1974, the Roanoke Rapids factory, which had 3,100 workers, became the site of the first big win for labor in the South after an 11-year organizing effort. The union and textiles giant J.P. Stevens & Co. Inc., WestPoint's predecessor, agreed on a contract six years later.
The union victory became the basis for the movie "Norma Rae," in which Sally Field portrays a minimum-wage textile worker-turned-union organizer.
History of the IAM
1888: 19 machinists meeting in locomotive pit at Atlanta, GA, vote to form a trade union. Machinists earn 20 to 25 cents an hour for 10-hour day.
1889: 34 locals represented at the first Machinists convention, held in Georgia State Senate Chamber, elect Tom Talbot as Grand Master Machinist. A monthly journal is started.
1890: First Canadian local chartered at Stratford, Ont. Union is named International Association of Machinists. Headquarters set up in Richmond, VA. Membership at 4,000.
