Tactical Dave
Grandmaster
Yeah, screw the unions. Boo to high wages, benefits, and pensions! We deserve the right to work for less! Well, thanks to ObamaCare, maybe they can all get two part time jobs and not worry about wages or benefits.
When you wonder why the middle class continues to shrink, consider your "screw the unions" mind set and wonder if that plays a part.
On a side note, the union makes an easy scapegoat, but Hostess already went through one bankruptcy and their current bankruptcy was filed for before the strike started. Do your own research and see where there debt lies and how their sales were going down due to a changing concerns by consumers (more health concerns, more vilification of sugar).
Yep, companies that are financially stable can handle a strike some have contingency plans for it. Some have management and contractors to do the labor during a strike... Granted production slows but stuff gets done.
I am union have also worked the mon union side before and have seen what greed can do from the union side and management side. In just about every example I put equal blame on both parties.
In our last contract is was more about loosing as little as we could. After the rise in health care we got like a 2% raise and a few other small things. There are people in other departments that we work with that have a different contract and tell us that our job is a lot more work then theirs and requires the same amount of knowledge or more. They get $10 an hour more then us and OT on anything over 8. Are we wrong for wanting to narrow that pay gap??? I don't think so.
Not all unions are greedy. United airlines union is what cost them thousands of jobs because of greed and idiotic practices but the company would also say replace a part that cost thousands instead of spending 2 hours of labor to fix it (decision made when plane was in for heavy maintenance).
People that have been union I feel can make an educated opinion. Those that have not just base their opinions on what they "hear"