I can’t understand why anyone on Free Republic wouldn’t support workers’ rights to strike. I don’t care how the companies deal with them (fire/replace them?), but I’ll be damned if someone tells me that I have to work a certain job. I work because I have a voluntary arrangement with a company to do so; when that is no longer satisfactory for either of us, then the relationship will end.
As for the timing, it is called “strike while the iron is hot”; it certainly removes any sympathy I have for any workers that permanently lost their jobs over the strike, but companies don’t ask workers when it would be convenient for them to join the masses of unemployed - they do it when it is best for the company!
You're talking about it as though the individual workers were deciding to work or not. But that's not what happened.
With the union, it's all of them at the same time, and individual workers do not have the choice to work or not. If the union votes to strike, and you're a member, you strike.
Conservatives value individual liberty, like what you have described, not collectivist group-think. Unions are the very epitome of collectivism, and they hate individualism.
Oh, and unions destructive actions are backed by labor law, while the same actions, if performed by a company, would be illegal.
Unions seek to control a company essentially by blackmail. Either you do things the way the union demans, or they make all your labor vanish instantly. Even without a formal strike, they can achieve the same effect in different ways. It's a thuggish rule by force which destroys company after company.
Gee, then I guess it just coincidental then.
Gee, then I guess it was just coincidental then.