Originally Posted by HobokenFlyer
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
If you are foolish enough to "compete" in your industry by providing a product at less than it costs to provide it (which is exactly what the moron executives throughout the industry have done), then you deserve those troubles. And if you're a real sleaze you will make your workers pay the price for your stupidity while giving yourself a big fat raise as NW management did.
That's is what is really going on here.