Originally Posted by Jaimito Cartero
I think this thread is getting way too emotional. I feel for the mechanics, at the same time I feel that NWA has to change to survive. I hope that after both sides beat their chests, they will come to an equitable agreement.
All mechanics I've seen have always been professional. They are certainly not apes, and whether they are on strike or not, should be treated fairly.
While I respect your opinion, I think it's time to really look at how asinine this is on all levels.
Only in a union mind could a 25% pay cut be worse than NO JOB AT ALL. You want these jobs yet you take great joy--yes, I say joy, look at the union folks on TV grinning while chanting--at trying to hurt the company that feeds your family.
Yes, I feel that walking around in a circle holding cardboard on a stick becuase the union tells oyu to is apelike behavior. Do their mouths water when you ring a bell too?
I work when my employer says work. No one but me or my employer will EVER tell me anythign different. My family comes before anyone telling me that I cannot work because some union boss man says I can't. Deliberately walking off a job and puting your family at risk is just plain old dumb. Deliberately hurting a company to make your point when that company is what sends you checks to keep the lights on.
It's time to call this union nonsense what it is: Hurtful to the very people it's trying to help. The unions seem to feel that a company already losing money will somehow come up with the money needed to NOT makes these concessions. But then again, these union bosses KEEP GETTING A PAYCHECK while the union members who pay their salaries earn nothing. Anyone willing to stand behind these union bosses has got to have his head examined. maybe if the union officers stopped earning a paycheck during the strike...
--Paul