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Season ribs the way you want. Smoke them for 3 hours at 225 than spray them with apple cider vinegar wrap with aluminum foil and continue to cook at 225 for 2 hours then unwrap apply your favorite BBQ sauce or just spray with apple cider vinegar again and cook at 225 for one more hour. Remove from smoker. Pull the bones out. They slide out easily slice up an onion. Cut boneless ribs into sub bun length add ribs onion cheese and more BBQ sauce to a sub bun and you will never have a mcrib sandwich again. 

On 8/1/2017 at 9:07 PM, steelnut said:

I'd love to see a smoker topic. We got one last year and have done pork butt for pulled pork, briskets and some veggies. We'd like to use it more often, but would like some ideas and recipes. Thanks!

3-2-1 ribs. Use your favorite rub then Smoke for 3 hours at 225 then wrap in aluminum foil and smoke for 2 more hours but no need to add any smoke during this period. Than unwrap sauce with BBQ sauce if you like and smoke for 1 more hour. Adding smoke for the final hour is optional.

Let me put it this way. Landfillguy. If yer employees came down from the garbage and said that it was splitting apart and unsafe and wasn't going back up there because they where afraid what would you do?. Then I ask anyone working at advanced what they think would have happened if they did that.

On 9/12/2017 at 8:11 AM, shameless978 said:

well they didn't get the guys off the hill soon enough osha report said ADS did not provide safe working environment. No crap we were saying that for a year

Did anyone listen?

New York City stopped collecting for over a month one time

I worked at ups for Christmas and recall them shutting the line down and all deliveries pulled over because of a safety issue. We sat there eating our lunches till the dispute was settled. 

What I'm saying is when the problem started to be noticed the union would have protected the workers from retribution for not going up their till it was safe. These workers where working in conditions they new wasn't safe. Afraid of losing their jobs if they said anything. A union would have gave them protection.

On 8/30/2017 at 11:51 AM, hipower said:

True, but even a waterfall started with a single drop of water.   In most cases eliminating one or two people swings the pendulum the other way.  I had a location where the work rules were costing significant dollars and during the negotiation of a new contract the union would not allow them to change.  After months of negotiation we made the decision to shut down a multi-million dollar facility and move the work to another existing site 40 miles away.  Same union, different local, and members who would work with management for the good of the business.

The employees couldn't believe that their stubbornness could result in 30+ lost jobs, but it did.  Every employee there was making in excess of $60K annually and had a benefit package that was well beyond the industry standard.  Unions have good as well as bad, but they are not a cure all.  Good, flexible employees and responsive management make a far better working environment than adversarial  workplaces.

Oh I know unions have bad parts. They squeeze employers monetary till their dang near making no profit. But ya ain't gonna move a landfill so just firing everyone and relocating ain't gonna work and no arbitrary judge is gonna sight with an employer when the work stop age is over safety hazards that can cause death. 

1 hour ago, hipower said:

I've been on all sides of this, union, non-union, hourly employee and management.  I can assure you that if I wanted to get rid of a union employee there are ways to make that reality.  You rarely hear of the failures of a union to protect employees, only their successes.  There are plenty of good examples of both sides, but there is no absolute security blanket from paying union dues.

In the case of the Greentree employees, I would suggest that should they want to push for change, they get their info assembled and their support lined up, then get this to the news media anonymously.  I say that since I have seen no evidence thus far that the government agency(s) responsible for effecting change are doing their jobs.  While everyone may be playing a waiting game there doesn't seem to be much activity from the political side either.   That makes me nervous as to the agenda of our elected officials.  That would start at the Fox Township supervisors and go through Elk County, Harrisburg and beyond.

Awe but you wouldn't be trying to fire 1 employee you would be trying to fire every employee.

And with a union they could speak out without fear of losing their jobs. 

And you would have to go through the union safety guidelines to create your cells. You wouldn't be an operator without years of apprenticeship. 

Unions create safety committees that the employers have to follow that go beyond oshas requirments. 

I understand what yet saying but there's not many managers around that would go to bat for their employees. To me the biggest reason for union is unsafe work places. Around here good paying jobs are few and far between.  So just leaving isn't much of an option when yer feeding a family. 

So if something like this was happening at where you work and the crew walks off because they feel it's unsafe you would let them keep their jobs?

Good time to form a union. Don't settle for a no walkout clause either.

It's a small town. If the family sure and wind millions Wich I hope they do. Everyone will know about it.

There's a Geocache there