Stop complaining and go back to work and accept what is offered. Blame yourselves and not the company.

Man, all this has become is a political theater. What an Obamanation.

I want happy workers at the BIG switch.
Citizen 99%.

Keating is a typical politician, only shows up when the news cameras are around. This is a labor-business dispute and politicians should stop stacking the deck. Keating does not understand how a free market works. If these guys don't want to do the job for the contract offered, Entergy has the right to find qualified people who will do the job.

M.N.,..Take your kid's support away and see how entertaining they think it is. HMMMMMM... A little more Mittigating now,Wha?
citizen 99%

Dear Citizen 1%.....Stacking the deck?......Are you kidding me? These workers only have their work to bargain with. The greedy profiteers have billions of dollars to crush any opposition,(even their regulators). This is supposed to be an American Free market, not some Banana Republic of the last century. Entergy is acting like a tyrant and they believe it's moral. I Don't. Collective Bargaining is a right ,not a privledge doled out at the whim of todays robber barons. Unions are the tide that raised all the boats in the 1950s until a few years ago. Yes, even your boat. Keating has always been at bat for the little guy and all Democrats are working to keep the ship from sinking as our annual income has since Reagan got his hands on the tax code.
Citizen 99%

Citizen1%, How much money do you need to support your average family. Think you'll be rich on $122k and dropping? I think not......and M.N., If the Pols got out of the way the big companies would eat you up in a New York minute. They think they're supposed to be preditors and they can devour any one in their way. and Small Business, Who walks through you front door to buy your product? Entergy?
The little guy doesn't have much to spend nowadays.The profits are aimed at the top 1%. not the,""""Greedy""""!!!!??? unions???
citizen 99%

With all due respect, M.N. Do you live in a Commonwealth? Citizen 1%,If you and your family are living on less than $42k/year you are living in poverty. If your not a 1%er why do you support them against the working class? I sense you're envious of their success. Go to school and get a better job. I am an American and I will stay here trying to make things better .I will not run down someone else because they're justifiably successful. That $122k is worth it just having someone sitting on the bomb and risking death while shutting down a burning reactor,once. I suspect as critisizers you wouldn't know how to do that. Have you ever paid your debt to society? I suspect not. Do you run down all public servants like this? Y.T. Citizen 99%

Kind of stretching it Susan. Talk to Wedge, he knows that Plimouth will never go into debt when Entergy leaves, we have more than enough industry to keep us out of the red, who cares about a little old nuke plant. Who cares about a union who just uses scare tactics and intimidation to get its way. I certainly don't. I feel sorry for the folks who have to cross that picket line every day the ones who are called scabs who actually work there, you know them Susan??? They are the engineers, the security officers, the credit union workers, NRC and the managers (yes I said that dirty word MANAGERS) who will continue to keep that plant running safely. And according to my friend who works there the place is looking pretty good and there have been no issues. Wow who would have ever thought that? I guess those walking the pickets aren't as necessary as they thought!

thank you been there, it's nice to hear from someone who has first hand experience.

I've walked the line as CWA/AT&T in the 70s-80s. I've been a Manager 80s-90s. I've been a share holder all the time. The union does the work, the managers oversee them and write about it, while the investors risk their money. At Entergy the same is true, except the workers also risk their lives, This fact seems to escape managers and some share holders when they're writing contracts and checks, unless it's for themselves. "Been their Done that." Yeah and it's amazing how efficient things get when only managers are counting the widgets. Crossing a picket line is the most socially irresponsible act a person can do in their lives. Selling ones soul is self destructive and sickens the souls of those who witness it.
I believe scabbers will answer for a crime against their fellow humans on another level. Citizen99%

would you rather they didn't cross the line and leave the plant empty? should the people in management lose their jobs to support the picketers? when the union is done having their tantrum they will have jobs to go back to if they chose. if management walks off they get nothing. should those guys lose their homes, medical benefits, and future earnings because 250 union workers want more? do you think any of these union workers that had a chance to move up the ladder wouldnt take a management position if they could? why yell at the guys keeping the plant going, the ones that are now keeping you safe (and NO they aren't leaving to play golf, that was the most stupid thing i've read here), they just want to do their jobs, and keep the plant running. scabs - crimes against their fellow humans? wow!

Citizen1%,The company should have continued to negotiate in good faith and their wouldn't be any scabs here. They chose to Lockout. The union didn't walkout. The company could have easily held a backup crew on standby. They just want to break unions and save salaries while they're doing it. Historcally,striking picketers have been run over by trucks,sprayed with fire hoses,beat by police, subjected to toxic fumes,firebombed,accosted and run off the road by company goons at night and even shot, but the lilly white companies would never let you think they had anything to do with that. Yes, it continues today. These picketers aren't here just for the money. They're here to make American life better,yours included.These managers,scabs and supporters have sold their souls for their jobs and I believe they will someday answer for it. Yes,they have the freedom to choose. As hard as the choice is,A choice to scab is still evil. C1% your ability to rationalize any wrong doing by the company is telling. I think a change of occupation to a life of crime would net you more than $42k. I think you could justify genocide for right money and you'd have a clear conscience afterward..... Oh, and It still baffles me how you can argue against your own class interests. HMMMMM? Or are you a company plant? Yours Truly, C99%

Citizen1,
You hit the nail on the head. That type of fanatical talk from Tom is exactly why Pilgrim "Locked out" the workers. Everyone who works in Nuclear Power knows that you cannot just turn off the switch and leave the plant unmanned, no matter what the current labor situation. Entergy HAD to have a contingency and had to use it. So Tom, did you refuse to cross the picket line when you were manager and risk losing you livelihood? Or did you never have to deal with a labor action when you were in management?

Been there done that,
You are absolutely correct. We as management don’t have a choice and need to go in and do our jobs. Most of the people crossing the line are not replacement workers or “scabs” as some like to put it but are instead people who are required to cross the line to do what they are paid to do. And yes, it is enlightening to see how long some things tasks actually take now that someone else is doing them.

Let the name calling begin…it’s OK, just like to driving into and out of work…getting used to it.

Did you not read the part about backup workerson site? That's a GOOD management decision.I avoided every picket line I came across ,but I did get caught working the testboard for a while in Boston during the strike of 1973 and swore I would never contribute again to the mangement lies that I witnessed. I built a career outside the company buildings, but still I regret any support I had for the worker abuse that I've seen. Hey, I can't tell you that you're a scab in your heart, but if the word hurts,You probably are. Only you know and only you will answer for it. If you think it's only a name then wear it well.If you think It's fanatical to stand with your own class,I feel sorry for you.
C99%

C1%,
Going to the state house Tuesday to support you side of the arguement? You'll get a chance to feel what the union picketers feel like when standing outside and alone fighting a The billion dollar Giant with only their voices. I think it will be a good learning experience for you. I'll buy you a irradiated cup of coffee.

C1%, Like AT&T switching centers, you man it or shut it down. If you shut down AT&T, people die in the air, on the highways, in Nukie plants,hospitals etc.. If you shut down a power plant Entergy loses profits. Your company isn't as important to the world as they would like to have you believe. It's only money to them. Ahhh, but computerization will probably be the demise of most unions and low to mid-level management within a few years anyway. From what I've experienced,read and seen in Congress, as soon as they can get the operating processes computerized they will centralize command to any low cost ,right to work state in the world. Your site will house only be a few black box techs, costodial/maintenance staff and security. Completely redundant computers and robots will do the "vital hands on"chores. The company won't care about you, they'll say "take it or leave it" just like they're telling the union now. Max your 401k max. and update your skills asap and hope they're not jeoprodizing your families wellbeing. It's like we said in the Navy. The lowest cost nuclear power generation is not a smart bet, especially when it gets old.Y.T C99%

AHHHHH! The company has graciously allowed the workers the right to speak to them. What will they allow them to say? Lets hope what the company says is in good faith for all of this community's sake.

C1%,If you're an example of the Entergy attitude toward its workers and Plymouth. Entergy and you ought to relocate, because most of us don't want you here anymore. I'm not angry, I'm scared that you're supposed to be a proffessional and you are now telling me there is no way to shut that Nuclear bomb down. Maybe we should aquiess to your threats or you'll blow us up. I just wonder how consciencious You and you're company will be when you decide there's no profit in the 40 or 60 year old mountain of Nuclear waste and finally pull the plug. Hell, computers only last ten years today. I'm sure John Q, will have to clean up after your gone with your profits, like Fukashima. I question your patriotism to do that to your fellow citizens. You, Citizen one?.......I think not.
PS I'd withhold my name too if I carried your shame.
Citizen99%

Best advice my father ever gave me? Son, Never cross a picket line. It's a slap in the face to America. You're just another fanatical corporate puppet screwing you own countrymen and believing your cause is noble. See you on judgement day. Peace.
C99%

Citizen1/2%, I know too many people and businesses who won't move here because of the risk you and your 40 year old radiation dump are imposing on the public. I thought long and hard about it before I came to Plymouth. I was convinced by the NRC it would be safe. I see now they were mistakenly counting on consumate professionals running the plant. You and Entergy's cavilier attitude of invincability make many of us scared. Plymouth was here almost 400 years before the bomb was built here and it may last another 400 if we can get you to leave. The older that radiation machine operates on less money the higher the chance it will fail. Our economy would attract more businesses if Entergy weren't here. You have a pretty high opinion of yourself and your company. How's it feel to be the target of every terrorist in the world. Good luck to us with you guys at the switch..

Your last comment tells your hand. It's all about economics with you. Money,Money,Money. Oh, I'm sorry.You're living on $42K a year in Massachusetts and Entergy has convinced you that it's a living wage. Maybe in a right to work swamp state like Lousiana, but not in the 21st century and not in the civilized world.
I think you're probably an old Bushie so, I think I'll try and find someone with their own brain. If you have any advice on how to survive in Plymouth during a meltdown of Pilgrim I'd love to hear it. You have served to shake our confidence in you,your company and the grand old radiation machine. If your great money machine fails there will be no viable economy for 50 miles of Plymouth. I lived in the last century and I remember Chernobyl and I've been to Hiroshima. You are living in the corporate propaganda bubble.

When I woke up this monrning I was grateful to see it was only the sun shining on the eastern horizon and I was grateful the old people at the switch made it through another night without a critical incident I guess. The picketers are our last Minutemen from Bunker Hill. Thank you for your sacrifices. Hope the company returns to sanity soon.
Citizen99%

yes you made it through another night without the union there. they are making a great sacrifice walking that line, and collecting their unemployment checks.

C1% Even the Red Coats admitted they were in it to keep America oppressed and they didn't hide their names. When did you ever make a sacrifice for your country. At 42k you're on the wrong side of the line but you don't know it and you dont know you dont know it. Ignorence is Bliss. Citizen 1% You're what we called in the service a Gold Brick. Do nothing ,but look good in brass. I think it's starting to tarnished because your arguments are so last century. I bet they give you a uniform and a whistle too.

Meltdown? I bet you're out of here before me.

Why didn't you say so. I too have blood on foreign soil. Thank you for your service. I recovered Aircraft and Gemini Capsules from the Atlantic...hoping I saved lives. I just turned 65 and retired. But, Who's going to shut the Pig down when it starts to cook? Those are the ones, who I respect. Your lifesaving experience should have taught you that the little guy needs the help, not the Generals. You,You're still a jerk and I suppose your not capable of learning any thing except what they feed you. I'm tired of you.
Citizen99%

Please re-read our terms of use policy and adhere to the terms, no name-calling or mudslinging is allowed. Please act as though you were at the dinner table with relatives you rarely see.

i am done with this. there is no middle ground and Casey is right name calling is juvenile. no matter what we feel we all have a right to it. entergy and the union will eventually come to terms and honestly their pay raise and benefits have nothing to do with me. Enjoy your summer.

Casey, "Jerk" isn't a bad name. It's a character flaw and believe me that guy's got some..LOL. C1% PS When the union holds on or gets more you'll get more in a few months. It's the only way a company can do to keep its low level managers believing the lies. You can consider it a bribe paid for with union blood..

Casey, Are we doing anything for readership #s? Up or Down?
Citizen99%

Thank you Ron S. It's been lonelier out here than a one man picket line. Get some more strikers on the Patch to clue these people in. Entergy is jeopardizing our lives with their monopoly games. All they have to lose is money. The workers and the people have some Skin in the games. Namely, their lives. Entergy,quit fooling around with our lives and offer the union a contract that is "fair and just". We didn't know your safety rating was attained by the people on the line. It's clear to most of us now that you're cheating by using a lockout so soon after the workers got you approved to run the 40 Year Old Nuclear Waste Machine for another 20 years.
Entergy, Shame on you.

Plant is running great. Operations is getting praise from the independent evaluators who were brought in to help with oversight. Maintenance is being done very well. Attendance and enthusiasm at the picket line are down. Union members are inquiring as to how they can come back to work individually. Lets run like this the whole summer and then have another vote!

Louie B. If you or yours is a union member,you are shameless. If not, your not of very good character. Putting someone else down for what they believe is not your right. They're standing up with only their line and their voices against a multibillion dollar company who is trying to grab obscene profits by cutting benefits.Is Entergy proud of Oyster Creek? Shame on them. Look at Fukushima that's where the same tyranical attitudes of invincibility got them.Same design?HMMMMMM!

Casey, I was as nice as pie.

Middle of the Road,C1 and NUKEWORKER If you don't know who the fired people are working on the bomb you're really scaring the heck out of me now.
Citizen99%

Middle of the Road,"There is no," Your verbal support of your company just displays your contempt for your own position. I know you don't like the situation, but you must believe deep in your gut that this isn't the unions fault. The company wants more profits. 10% is not enough? How can you attack your own? If you claim an education and some spiritual understanding,you know you can't eat your own, especially in front of strangers on this site. Your company isn't compelling you to attack them and me (a customer). You write because you want to.That's what they call a scab. You and Entergy have assumed the role of Bully against your own. My stake in your delemma is keeping my family safe and trying to learn about the people who are presumed to be doing that. So far I'm not impressed.I also could never support the billion dollar company over a coworker unless I felt threatened. You weren't. But, Entergy seems to have convinced you that this is moral.Yes, It was your choice to take the management job, but now you don't like some of the crap that comes with it.. Your supposed to do it and for your own people's sake, you could shut up. You have a right to work and workers have a right to strike and voice what ever they can.
That too is what you're paid for. Stay sharp and don't hit the wrong switch
Citizen99%

Oh Middle of the Road, I finally figured out who you are. Mr.Head,I know your brother Richard.

C1%, as MOR call out my contribution to your nuclear garbage dump, I can tell you it was done without my knowledge. I never suggested that anyone not report for work. If you make that choice you must take the crap that comes with it. If you're angy because your friends and coworkers call you bad names .Suck it up. The union has its voices against your billion dollar conglomerate. Entergy won't even tell us the truth about the danger that a plant and storage areas pose so close to the open Atlantic ocean. MOR says they've been able to buy a down and low profile so effective that even the average person on the street doesn't know what they are living with. That's not American or Transparent. Oh, and the experts are predicting a major earth quake in New England at anytime. How much above sea level is the plant? or is that secret too. I'd say a 40' deludge ought to put us all in the crap. MOR,Yeah,I'm glad you can keep a sense of humor through this lets see how jovial you are swimming with the rods..You're a real card.The problem isn't nuclear power....The problem is a 40 year old machine doing it. The workers are just making an OK living following a script authored by a mega-tyrant, Entergy.
C99%

C1%,You're calling me a hypocrate.Thanks for the laugh.C99%

Middle of the Road, Get off the road. You're blocking traffic in both directions. If you can't use your real name you lose any creditability with me. Oh and I still belong to CWA and FLEOA and damn proud of it.

Tom, you and/or your comments are ignorant and irrelevant.

MOR, I thought I knew your brother, but I guess it is you I know, Richard Head, We're gonna show you 99% at the next election. If you're not in the 99% you must be in the 1%. How's that $250K+ per year working for you? I thought I heard a rational Entergy manager emerge on your last blog, but you could'nt keep the con up for more the two minutes.Those Kid losers you saw on Fox NEWS.? You were looking at your own kids and there's will have it even worse if you can't change your beat down attitude toward the little guy (unions). Billions against people in the street? Not fair. I predict that America will be fair again,but not the Entergy/Corporate/Gop or your way,Have a nice day.Oh, the real mccoy.You comment mocks itself. I got your attention didn't I ,Dope? Respectfully Yours C99%