Striking Internet porn pizza workers offer resolution

There's something quite sad when people fall out over Internet porn.

However, relationships do not appear to be anywhere closer to a consummated hug at Ireland's Green Isle Foods pizza-making plant.

Should you not have been arrested by this pulsating tale, Green Isle Foods dismissed three workers after accusing them of enjoying Internet porn on the job. Thirty-five pizza-producing people went on strike. This was five weeks ago.

Now, according to the Leinster Leader, the workers are trying to seduce the management into some making up and kissing.

In my mind, this pizza represents the fractious relationships at Green Isle.

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The Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union, which represents the workers, has offered a visit to the local Irish sex therapist, otherwise termed the Labor Court.

Management is playing rather hard to get. It has already refused to bare the other cheek by communicating with the union through the Irish Labor Relations Commission.

And now, a Green Isle Foods spokesman dismissed union efforts, telling the Leader that this is not an issue for group therapy.

"It (the company] will continue to interact with employees locally and directly to resolve the issue. In the meantime, operations remain as normal," he said.

I cannot possibly imagine who is making the pizzas if the workers and their highly sensitive dough-stroking fingers are outside picketing (and having pizzas delivered to them by sympathetic locals).

[SlimGem]

"... their highly sensitive dough-stroking fingers ..."

Eeesh! It's going to be awhile before I can eat pizza again.

[Jack K1]

So... what exactly do *you* like on your pizza? Or more to the point, what is it you'd rather not have associated with your food?

Screw the pervs - they deserved to get fired. And fire the strikers while you're at it. They obviously don't need the work.

[Demolition]

It's hard to get a handle on what the real story is behind these firings. Green Isle says it fired the three workers for looking at porn. The union says that the workers were actually reading redundancy proposals (i.e. letters outlining how Green Isle is restructuring and who is getting laid off).

If the former is true, then the workers probably deserve to be fired. If the latter, then it sounds like Green Isle is engaging in a bit of union-busting.

As for who is making the pizzas while the workers are striking... As with any strike, the managers usually fill in wherever they can. Assuming that the factory is automated, then they're probably making as many pizzas now as they were before the strike. Where the problem lies is in the receiving/shipping and warehousing/distribution end of the business. Perhaps in sales, too. You can make as many pizzas as you want, but if you can't move them out of the factory, then it's pointless.