Your post #6 crossed my mind too! I have a hard time feeling pity for people who strike who make the kind of money, or that baseball players make, etc. If they feel they need more pay, fine, but make your waves in a less destructive manner, and perhaps they should time it a tad better too!
We happen to be at war in this country. We need a healthy economy to support our troops. I don't think their timing generates a lot of sympathy to be quite honest.
Vets_Husband_and_Wife posted:
Your post #6 crossed my mind too! I have a hard time feeling pity for people who strike who make the kind of money, or that baseball players make, etc. If they feel they need more pay, fine, but make your waves in a less destructive manner, and perhaps they should time it a tad better too! Wait a minute, folks. Whatever may be said vis-a-vis "unions", and what is going on with the West Coast Longshoremen, it is not -- repeat, for emphasis: IS NOT -- a "strike".
The dock workers were LOCKED OUT by MANAGEMENT: i.e., the workers are not "withholding their labor". Rather, management is denying them the opportunity to work by "locking the gates" to the docks. Hence, "lockout".
The dock workers, in response, gather each day by the gates, but they are not "picketing". They are there waiting to return to work when management opens the gates again.
It is NOT a "strike".
I know there is a wellspring of anti-union sentiment here on Free Republic (for the record, _I_ am a union member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers), but stop claiming these workers are doing something they are not -- and what they are NOT doing is "striking"...
Cheers!
- John
The Union says it's not about money. It's about their resisting new technology that would make our ports competitive with those in other countries. It's all about computers and systems that would impact them--poor guys! How many of you make from $80 to $150K per year? They do.
The Union was once known on the coast as controlled by the Commies. Now it's the RAT union leaders.