Where is President Reagan. I'd fire these pri!cks permanently. Just as he did with the air traffic controllers' strike. I believe we have enough out of work machinists that could back-fill the resource demand.
Do you have any concept what it would cost the company to disrupt production for even a few months to retrain new workers?
It takes two to have a strike. The company could have avoided this strike as easily as the union.
My union went on strike a few years ago. While we were out we did something that the IAM has never been able to achieve. We completely shut down deliveries instantly. (Boeing only gets paid when they deliver airplanes). Now the company loves to talk about looking out for shareholders. But while we were out the stock fell $12 (about $12,000,000,000 reduction in shareholder value), I estimated that it would have cost $120,000,000 to avoid the strike. So it was a 100 to one loss. How is that the comany looking out for shareholder value.
BTW when we came back they extended some of the benefits that we won in the strike to about twice as many non represented employees even though they said it would bankrupt the company to do it for us.
It takes two.