Irony is ironic.
Good, that’ll leave less union communist money to influence elections. Plus, the more that union members suffer, the weaker unions become.
Gee, that ought to help clear out the unemployed aerospace workers from Wichita.
It’s ok. The union leaders will all still have jobs.
International means that they are NOT America Firsters. Striking is the one thing that union types do exceptionally well.
Irony is ironic.
Now THAT may kill off the F-35.The Boeing cheerleaders here should be happy.
Couldn’t strike at a better time. With unemployment down and the economy up. /s
I guess the IAM thinks that since the F35 program is starting to turn the corner, that they have a better “bargaining” position.
Hundreds of members of the Lockheed Martin International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers met at the Cowtown Coliseum Sunday afternoon to vote on terms of a new contract.
My husband and I worked there when it was General Dynamics on both the F-16 and A-12 programs . . . way before we ever worked there . . . I remember reading about the strike and police had to be called, management had to be escorted onto the property and nails spread on the roadway leading to the main plant. Those people were way over paid as it was . . . I remember even back in the late 80’s and early 90’s the janitors were making 50-60K per year with their overtime. Most of the line workers made more than double what our senior engineers were making, triple our entry level engineers. Poor babies . . . and here they are stupid enough to go on strike in this economy.
The dues paying members never learn that they don’t make a nickel from a strike.
I was a member of both the IAW and UAW in the 70’s, and it became apparent that the Company would simply let you strike long enough to pay for the “increase”, over the next 3 years.
Only the thugs running the union, ever benefitted from the increase in dues.