Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, IL and Caterpillar plants in Decatur and elsewhere have ended in defeat . These defeats were by no means inevitable, but were facilitated by the union bureaucrats who strong-armed the workers to surrender . Staley workers were forced to accept a rotten settlement in January and the CAT workers suffered a similar fate in December 1995 . In both cases, workers have been forced to swallow huge concessions . There have been big job cuts, many strikers have not been rehired and working conditions have been gutted .
Workers show determination .
Not at all . The workers showed tremendous courage and capacity for struggle . They fought for months and years on end against corporations determined to crush them . They braved the police forces of the capitalist government who protected scabs and assaulted strikers . Meanwhile, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of Staley's lock out of workers and their hiring of scabs as permanent replacement workers .