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Lee A. Tregurtha of Lakes Shipping Co. drifts into dock at Marquette, Michigan, ready to load 12 million pounds or so of iron ore pellets brought from the mines by Lake Superior & Ishpeming trains. Shouldn't that be I & LS instead of the other way 'round?
Sadly, there will be no tug! Modern lake boats use thrusters to manouver in and out of dock on their own. More efficient and convenient, but not nearly so cool.
On the other side of the dock is the Michipicoten: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15256766/
Sadly, there will be no tug! Modern lake boats use thrusters to manouver in and out of dock on their own. More efficient and convenient, but not nearly so cool.
On the other side of the dock is the Michipicoten: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15256766/
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I always see it as a cyclical problem:
1) Management and ownership rapes, pillages, and plunders their company.
2) Workers see the way the above act and figure they should also get in the act.
3) Management bows to worker pressure and promises them unrealistic things, just to keep the money flowing in.
4) Start again at 1.
By repeatedly going through this cycle, everybody loses.
1) Management and ownership rapes, pillages, and plunders their company.
2) Workers see the way the above act and figure they should also get in the act.
3) Management bows to worker pressure and promises them unrealistic things, just to keep the money flowing in.
4) Start again at 1.
By repeatedly going through this cycle, everybody loses.
ya but I'm speaking of specifically how the automotive unions brought down the automotive industry in Detroit. car production halted in Detroit that put the steal industry into a tailspin. Bethlehem steal made a product with no demand. as did the mills in Gary In, which guided iron ore shipping. it's all connected in the circle of... well death in this case.
Ah, but I am inclined to disagree. The American automakers also brought about the demise, by designing and selling cars for years that were, let's face it, shit. At the same time agreeing to adsurd compensation and pensions, because they would do anything to keep the workers working, so they could get their management bonuses.
I don't think you can say corporate problems are exclusive the unions or the workers, or management or ownership. All parties are culpable and it serves no point to argue about who did what first. We have all bought into this concept that we deserve it all for nothing, right now, and we don't need to invest in ourselves or the future. We are now reaping the results of shortsightedness and greed, as the rest of world steals our pie :)
I don't think you can say corporate problems are exclusive the unions or the workers, or management or ownership. All parties are culpable and it serves no point to argue about who did what first. We have all bought into this concept that we deserve it all for nothing, right now, and we don't need to invest in ourselves or the future. We are now reaping the results of shortsightedness and greed, as the rest of world steals our pie :)
I took a look at "boat" stats... Edmund Fitzgerald was about 120 feet longer and carried significantly more cargo. It's cargo tonnage must have been almost twice that of the Irvin.
I think one of the theories remains that freak waves lifted the bow and stern of the Fitzgerald, leaving its center unsupported, and it simply snapped in half under the immense weight of the iron ore.
My hat is off to the brave mariners who sail the Great Lakes. They may "just be lakes" but they can be a wicked environment.
I think one of the theories remains that freak waves lifted the bow and stern of the Fitzgerald, leaving its center unsupported, and it simply snapped in half under the immense weight of the iron ore.
My hat is off to the brave mariners who sail the Great Lakes. They may "just be lakes" but they can be a wicked environment.
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