Originally Posted by LTRS
You want to know real hysteria? Imagine your insurance contribution is cut by 50%, your pension done away with, and your boss telling you that as of tomorrow you are going to make 25% less while half of your co-workers are laid off (so you'll be doing double the work).
It's extremely easy to say "oh well, tough luck, don't be so hysterical about it" when it's not happening to you. At least for some people, apparently.
I pay my own health insurance and I survive. Pension, what's that? I am the 401(k) generation. Hmmm and Union rules ALWAYS increase efficiencies in operation and all the labor is maxmized for best output. Union rules eliminate, "That's not my job" statements and so forth. I am sure that if the union didn't exist, they really didn't need those half of the employees and their salary would be in line with other mecahnics in the industry.
When times get tough you have to suck it up. In my business, me and my family have taken pay cuts, was not paid commissions, health insurance not paid for and, among other things, our houses mortgaged to get the business through tough times. You do what you have to do to survive. If you are not that emotionally invested, then simply leave. You can't have it both ways.
You can only live off the fat for so long, unions have got so used to it for so long, it's trying to get a junkie off of smack.
- HF