Mr. Mike C. Hurley

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  www.hometownradio.ca/news-items.asp?id=6654 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/27/2009    Last Visited: 6/15/2009  

  Members are President Mike Hurley, Vice-president Sandy Kelly, Treasurer Gary Lalonde, Secretary Lana Marshall, and Directors Bobby Orr, Steve Seale, Tony Melchers, Carla Jackson, Betty MacLeod and Bonnie Reid.

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  Published on: 3/14/2007    Last Visited: 5/16/2009  

  Because the Union Stockyards Company lacked the funds to buy enough cattle to attract local ranchers, President Mike C. Hurley invited a wealthy Boston capitalist Greenleif Simpson to Fort Worth in hopes that he would invest in the Union Stock Yards. When Simpson arrived on the heels of heavy rains and a railroad strike, more cattle than usual had accumulated in the pens. Seeing this, he decided that Fort Worth represented a good market and made plans to invest.

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  www.burnabynewsleader.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=4 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/5/2007    Last Visited: 4/6/2007  

  Mike Hurley, president of the charitable society, presented Darling with plaque featuring a firefighter's axe to honour his support.
  
  Firefighters also honoured Bonney Rempel for her years of support by presenting her with a specially-painted firefighter's helmet.During her tenure at Lougheed Town Centre, Rempel helped foster the close relationship between firefighters and the shopping centre that has been home to such events as last October's Celebrity Firefighter Challenge during Fire Prevention Week.

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  Published on: 11/10/2004    Last Visited: 11/10/2004  

  The union had no choice in putting the motion forward, "the money has to come from somewhere," said president Mike Hurley.As for Prokopetz's allegation that it directly targets her, Hurley commented: "I don't disagree with that.
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  Prokopetz would have had her legal fees paid for, but chose to go out and find her own representation, said Hurley.

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  www.burnabynewsleader.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=4 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/31/2004    Last Visited: 10/31/2004  

  "There are a number of Burnaby firefighters that have suffered through these types of cancers," said Mike Hurley, president of the Burnaby firefighters local.One firefighter currently has leukemia and requires a bone marrow transplant to save his life."What we're saying is if you're undergoing cancer treatment and all that, the last thing you need to be worrying about is your WCB claims," said Hurley.

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  Published on: 12/4/2002    Last Visited: 8/10/2004  

  Held at Ferry Terminal, 30 Berth, European Way, Eastern Docks, Southampton, before: Mr MICHAEL HURLEY (The Inspector) & Mr ANDREW PHILLIPSON (The Deputy Inspector)
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  THE INSPECTOR (Mr Michael Hurley): The next person on the list is Dr Julian Lewis MP…

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  American News | 09/23/2005 | Former union leader... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/23/2005    Last Visited: 9/23/2005  

  MINNEAPOLIS - Despite his long history as a union leader, Northwest Airlines maintenance inspector Mike Hurley is crossing the picket lines of striking mechanics.
  
  Hurley served six years as president of the Machinists' union that represented Northwest mechanics and ground workers until the mechanics voted in 1998 to break away and join the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, an independent union not affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
  
  While many of Hurley's former co-workers now brand him a scab, he does not regret his decision, saying AMFA should have given him and other members the opportunity to vote on what the company called its final offer in August.
  
  "I had to follow the courage of my convictions and not a culture of contradictions, namely the AMFA," Hurley said.
  
  Before AMFA's 4,100 mechanics, cleaners and custodians went on strike Aug. 20, Hurley was earning about $37 an hour and close to $77,000 a year.Now he makes $27.54 an hour, a rate Northwest imposed after the strike began.That works out to $57,283 a year based on a 40-hour work week.
  
  Hurley's name and photo are now posted on the official AMFA Local 33 Web site under the heading "confirmed scabs."On Monday, AMFA members picketed his house.
  
  "Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters," said Steve MacFarlane, AMFA's assistant national director.
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  "Mike now has to live with the fact that his co-workers will forever view him as a scab."
  
  Hurley and his wife weren't home at the time, but Hurley said his 14-year-old son and 6-year-old granddaughter were.
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  Hurley takes a different view of the replacement workers.
  
  "The people that are working here have a great deal of airline experience, having been laid off from other major airlines," he said.And he said they're determined to prove AMFA mechanics wrong about their ability to perform maintenance that allows the airline to operate safely and efficiently.
  
  "They are hardworking guys who want to make a living," he said.
  
  Hurley called AMFA a "raider organization" and is critical of AMFA's strategy in its dispute with Northwest.
  
  "They make this out to be a grand labor struggle, when it is merely a company trying to survive," he said.
  
  He's especially critical of AMFA's leadership for not asking members to vote on a proposal in mid-August to preserve 2,750 mechanics' jobs and provide as much as 26 weeks' severance pay and medical benefits for employees who would have been laid off.He thinks the rank and file would have accepted that deal.
  
  When negotiations last broke down Sept. 11, Northwest had reduced its offer to saving only 1,080 jobs and only 16 weeks of severance.
  
  "I did not believe that the AMFA did right by its members in terms of legitimately negotiating," Hurley said.

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  Anti-Strib: 09/01/2005 - 09/30/2005 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/1/2005    Last Visited: 9/15/2006  

  Today's article on Mike Hurley is a sterling example of everything that is wrong with unions and why I hate them.
  
  Mike Hurley, former president of a union that represented Northwest Airlines mechanics, has crossed the picket line of striking mechanics and is now branded a scab by many of his former co-workers….
  
  His name and photo are posted on the official AMFA Local 33 website under the heading "confirmed scabs."And, on Monday, AMFA members picketed outside Hurley's house."Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters," said Steve MacFarlane, AMFA's assistant national director.
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  "Mike now has to live with the fact that his co-workers will forever view him as a scab."
  
  "Yes, comrade!We live to further the socialist utopia, screw my wife and kids!"if your co-workers don't respect your having more concern for your own family than you do for them, they are morons.
  
  Hurley and his wife weren't at home at the time of the picketing, but Hurley said his 14-year-old son and 6-year-old granddaughter were there when the protesters showed up.
  
  "They did a good job of scaring my granddaughter," Hurley said, which is one reason he agreed to be interviewed by the Star Tribune about his decision to cross the picket line.
  
  Hurley views the action outside of his house as "a ploy to intimidate others to not go back to work."
  
  Mike is now an outcast for taking care of his own family.Much like socialist countries, they rely on fear and intimidation to keep people in line.Note that Mike has a 14 year old son and 6 year old grand daughter at his home.Is it possible that Mike might really need to keep working?Is it possible that some people can't afford to walk away from their career right now?
  
  Hurley did not relish crossing a picket line."You have people that you've known and worked with for a number of years that you don't want to disappoint," he said.
  
  But he ultimately decided to return to work."I did not believe that the AMFA did right by its members in terms of legitimately negotiating," he said."We never got the option to vote" on a contract.
  
  This guy didn't believe that the AMFA was dealing with NWA correctly and he is not willing to lose his job to prove them wrong.How would you feel if you were assigned an idiot to negotiate for your job?
  
  Hurley said that since he returned to Northwest, he has talked with replacement mechanics who are determined to prove AMFA mechanics wrong about their ability to perform maintenance that allows the airline to operate safely and efficiently.
  
  "They are hard-working guys who want to make a living," he said.

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  Argus Leader - Business - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/23/2005    Last Visited: 9/23/2005  

  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Despite his history as a union leader, Northwest Airlines maintenance inspector Mike Hurley is crossing the picket lines of striking mechanics.
  
  Hurley served six years as president of the Machinists union local that represented Northwest mechanics and ground workers until the mechanics voted in 1998 to break away and join the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, an independent union not affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
  
  While many of Hurley's former co-workers now brand him a scab, he does not regret his decision, saying AMFA should have given him and other members the opportunity to vote on what the company called its final offer in August.
  
  "I had to follow the courage of my convictions and not a culture of contradictions, namely the AMFA," Hurley said.
  
  Hurley's name and photo are now posted on the official AMFA Local 33 Web site under the heading "confirmed scabs."Monday, AMFA members picketed his house.
  
  "Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters," said Steve MacFarlane, AMFA's assistant national director.

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  Aviation News(Blog) - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/1/2005    Last Visited: 6/8/2006  

  Despite his long history as a union leader, Northwest Airlines maintenance inspector Mike Hurley is crossing the picket lines of striking mechanics.
  
  Hurley served six years as president of the Machinists union local that represented Northwest mechanics and ground workers until the mechanics voted in 1998 to break away and join the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, an independent union not affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
  
  While many of Hurley's former co-workers now brand him a scab, he does not regret his decision, saying AMFA should have given him and other members the opportunity to vote on what the company called its final offer in August.
  
  "I had to follow the courage of my convictions and not a culture of contradictions, namely the AMFA," Hurley said.
  
  Before AMFA's 4,100 mechanics, cleaners and custodians went on strike Aug. 20, Hurley was earning about $37 an hour and close to $77,000 a year.Now he makes $27.54 an hour, a rate Northwest imposed after the strike began.

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