If this is a "victory" what would a defeat look like?

So, if this is a victory I wonder what a defeat would look like?

Honeywell Lockout Ends in Victory for Union

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11823/honeywell_lockout_ends_in_victory_for_union/

At some point rank-and-file workers are going to have to consider different strategies and tactics in dealing with lockouts because it is obvious these labor “leaders” like Leo Gerard and this entire bunch of labor fakers and sell-outs are going to paint anything as a “victory.”

Have Leo Gerard and Richard Trumka ever heard of strikes and plant occupations? Have they ever heard of preventing scabs from entering the workplace?

These labor fakers have tried to replace struggle with relying on a bunch of worthless Democrats they back who won’t even pass anti-scab legislation.

Do we know how many lockouts are going on in this country?

Why would any union leader not place before the rank-and-file the option of going on strike and taking over a plant knowing the employer is going to lock workers out?

Is this the kind of “victory” the United Steel Workers union can take to unorganized workers and say: This is what a union can do for you?

In the end, though, when all is said and done, the message all workers reading this should get is: If you are going to become a union activist only AFTER being locked out this is the kind of victory you can expect.

Right now in the Red River Valley one of the largest employer lockouts is taking place. 1,300 workers have been locked out of their plants by American Crystal Sugar after management reached agreement with union leaders to have workers train the scabs in preparation for the lockout which management announced in advance. These union leaders, after agreeing to train the scabs convinced workers that Democratic politicians like Barack Obama, Minnesota’s liberal governor Mark Dayton, U.S. Congressman Collin Peterson and Minnesota’s Secretary of State Mark Ritchie would “take care of us.”  Well, it seems that all of these politicians have misplaced their “marching shoes” as the unions supporting them are now under attack.

Question: Should workers be considering plant occupations when confronting lockouts?

Not only do workers need new leaders who aren’t afraid to participate in the “class struggle” when faced with lockouts; the working class needs a new working class based progressive people’s party that will stick with the unions in the streets and on the picket lines that will bring anti-scab legislation forward.

In these times when employers are taking advantage of the massive unemployment driven by austerity measures required to pay for these dirty wars to attack the living standards of the working class by driving down wages, decimating pensions and eliminating health care benefits, rendering unions complacent and docile on the road to busting unions in the process, maybe it’s time to ask the question:

How is Barack Obama’s Wall Street war economy working for you?

There seems to be a connection between union leaders who remain silent in the face of the politicians they support fighting imperialist wars and tolerating employers who back the same politicians who lock workers out.