Unions Unite in Protest Over Job Cuts 7/23/3132
INN - Interstellar News Network
TANTRIL, ANKAA—Coming shortly after Bannson Enterprises’ announcement that
it would be closing five former DiNapoli Industries divisions on Bharat and Yangtze,
eight major Republic unions banded together today to deliver a message of their own
to Jacob Bannson. That message: “The working man will no longer be your doormat.”
Mere hours after learning that Bannson would be closing five DiNapoli divisions, the
leaders of the Federated Laborers Organization (FLO) and the Brotherhood of Sphere
Workers, unions representing more than 90 percent of the 15,000 laid-off DiNapoli
employees, began to coordinate their efforts against DiNapoli. Within a day, though,
their burgeoning grassroots campaign against tycoon Jacob Bannson grew into
something much larger.
“We had long known that Jacob Bannson, contrary to what his publicists want us to
think, is the enemy of the working man,” said FLO spokesman Muhammad Treibek.
“The messages we received from union leaders throughout the Republic prove that
unequivocally.”
A few days were all that labor organizers needed to prepare their strategy. Beginning
yesterday, the eight allied unions, representing tens of thousands of workers, issued
statements condemning Bannson’s move and demanding he reinstate those jobs or
else face the “fury of [their] combined strength.”
For his part, Bannson seemed unworried during a press conference today. “My
responsibility is to my stockholders and to the Republic as a whole. Excellence is our
primary mission. No one can make us compromise that mission because of illegal
threats.” Bannson later said, “The unions want to focus on the fact that we eliminated
jobs, but what they don’t want to admit is that those divisions were unprofitable and
that we are doing everything we reasonably can to find these loyal employees new
positions.”
Though Bannson stock took a sharp hit following the unions’ releases, it has steadily
climbed back up since Bannson’s press conference.
INN - Interstellar News Network
TANTRIL, ANKAA—Coming shortly after Bannson Enterprises’ announcement that
it would be closing five former DiNapoli Industries divisions on Bharat and Yangtze,
eight major Republic unions banded together today to deliver a message of their own
to Jacob Bannson. That message: “The working man will no longer be your doormat.”
Mere hours after learning that Bannson would be closing five DiNapoli divisions, the
leaders of the Federated Laborers Organization (FLO) and the Brotherhood of Sphere
Workers, unions representing more than 90 percent of the 15,000 laid-off DiNapoli
employees, began to coordinate their efforts against DiNapoli. Within a day, though,
their burgeoning grassroots campaign against tycoon Jacob Bannson grew into
something much larger.
“We had long known that Jacob Bannson, contrary to what his publicists want us to
think, is the enemy of the working man,” said FLO spokesman Muhammad Treibek.
“The messages we received from union leaders throughout the Republic prove that
unequivocally.”
A few days were all that labor organizers needed to prepare their strategy. Beginning
yesterday, the eight allied unions, representing tens of thousands of workers, issued
statements condemning Bannson’s move and demanding he reinstate those jobs or
else face the “fury of [their] combined strength.”
For his part, Bannson seemed unworried during a press conference today. “My
responsibility is to my stockholders and to the Republic as a whole. Excellence is our
primary mission. No one can make us compromise that mission because of illegal
threats.” Bannson later said, “The unions want to focus on the fact that we eliminated
jobs, but what they don’t want to admit is that those divisions were unprofitable and
that we are doing everything we reasonably can to find these loyal employees new
positions.”
Though Bannson stock took a sharp hit following the unions’ releases, it has steadily
climbed back up since Bannson’s press conference.
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