A line right out of Atlas Shrugged. Investment? In what? A money-losing proposition?
When all the union leadership and many members know they get a check each week, which they can cash for it’s value of course they can demand anything. They have no clue as to how or why the employer is able to get that money to pay them. All they know is they get money.
The process as to how the employer is able to make enough money to pay them is a foreign concept to them.