[Billy_bob_bob]

Please re-read my posting. As I understand it, the union has no objection to the new technology. The union strongly objects to the idea that new jobs created by this technology are intended by management to be filled using non-union labor.

If management would agree to hire only union people for these new jobs, then the union will agree to a new contract and the strike/lockout/mess ends.

[MrB]

intended by management to be filled using non-union labor

That would be a tragedy for competitive workers to come in and actually do the work they're paid to do (at the value of that work) or get fired. It would set a bad example and all that. It might show the efficiencies of the free market of labor and the deficiencies of the monopoly of unions.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

That's not the real point of the entire issue. The union in the end is doing the work the Leftists can't, creating an economic issue before November. It seems that the strike has become the prevailing them regardless of the economic impact. And with the high salaries, constant concessions, unemployed Americans, as well as the recent baseball strike, this too may be more crap in the DNC faces.