trust your children to every day? do you want replacement workers there? or how about the firefighters you trust in emergencies? first responders, do you want a replacement team showing up that doesn t know what the hell is going on? i think the nfl owners love this. this is their power trip and they won t be backing down any time soon. they it probably made a calculated decision early on in the process that we re going to take some heat, but we re going to make a lot of money. let s stick together and live through it. that s why you re not seeing a lot of people who do nfl games speak up and give their opinion. the nfl has got a pretty good hold on them. that s if they want to be around the league anymore. they are that strong. let s turn to william roden and eugene robinson, msnbc political analyst. gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight.
just a blown call. it s about labor. this is an issue that strikes at the very core of what we do with workers in this country. the broad republican philosophy is to do what? eliminate the unions to get cheap workers, go right to the bottom line. this is what the nfl is doing right now. they are getting what they paid for. even after last night s blown call, the nfl is holding firm against the refs. the main sticking point is job security. nfl owners want to be able to fire these refs whenever they want to. the same thing is playing out where? with the chicago public school teachers. if you re not good, we re going to get rid of you. we don t need football. in the scheme of things, as far as other workers are concerned who are far more important, it s pretty important when it comes to educating your kid. how about the teachers that you trust your children to every day? do you want replacement workers
them with cheap labor. americans at the crystal sugar company in moorhead have been locked out of their jobs since august. it s pretty rough right now. ceo of the company david berg put replacement workers on the job rather than give his union employees a livable wage increase. workers are holding a public forum tomorrow at minnesota state university moorhead and i will be there with a television camera crew to find out just how five months of being locked out is affecting these workers and families. we ll bring you the report on monday. the same thing is going on in findlay, ohio, where more than 1,000 workers are in the fifth day of being locked out from cooper tires. has five years at cooper under his belt. i ve had two brothers who retired from here, and i ve always wanted to get in here and i finally get in here and it s not looking good right now. mark s concerned about company plans to bring in
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important to their job. megyn: and they gave the appropriate notice. they gave the two weeks notice saying this day we re going to be out, we re going to be striking. yes, they did. and the hospital then went out and entered into a contract to get replacement workers, which i understand. however, the excuse they are now doing is they needed to do it, meaning get the replacement workers, for a five-day contract, and as a result of that they couldn t otherwise have shortened it. megyn: so that s why, just to clarify, even though the nurses only wanted to strike for one day, the hospital said you re out for one, you re out for five because we have to hire replacements. that s right. and here s what i don t get. what i believe is you have to, you owe it to your patients to have the best people available at all times. thousand, the event now, in the event you entered into a five-day contract, number one, there could have been alternatives where you could have found someone to provide