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Old Tue May 30, 2006, 01:32pm
Carbide Keyman Carbide Keyman is offline
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Originally Posted by DIV2ump
Can you explain? To us country folk it sounds like you're saying that they missed two months of pay to get an extra $30 per month per diem. I'm not real strong at math but it seems like that would take quite a while to make up for the salary they lost by striking.

You can never expect to make up what you have lost in the time you have been out. It rarely, if ever, happens.

They have lost approximately nine weeks salary (depending on level worked). They will never get that back.




Doug