This kind of crap happens a lot. Hawaiians - arguably the laziest state in the US - did something like this in the early 90s. At that time sugar was under intense international pressure. The main sugar refinery on the south end of the big island opened it's books to the workers and showed them that if they didn't take a pay cut the company would go under. The workers voted NOT to take a pay cut. The company shut down. The workers lost their jobs and went on welfare. Did they learn anything? The answer was a resounding "NO."
A consortium of investors - mostly Japanese - bought a lot of shore property with the intent of making the southeast side of the big island like the hotel zone on Maui. This would have provided lots of well paying jobs. Did the Hawaiians want that? Hell no. They got their lawyers out and blocked the development claiming that it would interfere with their "native values" The investors lost their money, and the lazy aholes are still sitting around on the dole.
As long as you pay people to do nothing, that's what they're going to do.
My first paying job, working for a contractor building a house one summer, I asked the boss why the carpenters, roofers, electricians and the high paying workers bitched so much about their jobs, when my buddy and I, both high schoolers working a summer job, were happy as clams doing a job we were getting paid for, even though we were doing all the grunt work.
He told me that the better a person had it, the more they bitched and the more they expected extra benefits. He said, and I believe this to be true, that if you paid a man to come to work every day and just sit under a shade tree and drink beer eventually the guy would start bitching because he had a tree at home he could sit under so why did he have to come all the way to the job to sit under their tree.
This points out the mentality of the entitlement class, the world owes them a living and a good deal more.