Michael Snow
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Yes, I should know better, but who am I to know better?
This got taken off as a tangent to gas prices, so let's start here.
I work for a company that's waiting for the union to figure out if it's going to strike or not. We've had several deliberate sabotage problems and the timing sure points to a bunch of disgruntled workers -- the union.
Here's how I see it. If you want to leave your job, go for it. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason why you should ever get it back. If you don't want it, someone else does. But no, temp workers have to babysit your job until you decide you're getting enough.
I don't believe ANY company should ever be held hostage by its workers, and that's all a strike is.
I'm only addressing the situation of today, not 50 years ago. People aren't fighting over unsafe work conditions, they're fighting to keep from having to pay any more of their own health care costs. They're fighting to say that no one can be laid off. By golly, when times get tough, someone has to go... the least productive should go, period.
This got taken off as a tangent to gas prices, so let's start here.
I work for a company that's waiting for the union to figure out if it's going to strike or not. We've had several deliberate sabotage problems and the timing sure points to a bunch of disgruntled workers -- the union.
Here's how I see it. If you want to leave your job, go for it. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason why you should ever get it back. If you don't want it, someone else does. But no, temp workers have to babysit your job until you decide you're getting enough.
I don't believe ANY company should ever be held hostage by its workers, and that's all a strike is.
I'm only addressing the situation of today, not 50 years ago. People aren't fighting over unsafe work conditions, they're fighting to keep from having to pay any more of their own health care costs. They're fighting to say that no one can be laid off. By golly, when times get tough, someone has to go... the least productive should go, period.