August 7th, 2006 by Atomictumor
So, big news today (other than BP taking one on the chin in the name of global proliferation of oil company profits by “supply disasters”) is that the Fine 2709 is going on strike.
Which got me to thinking. Now, I’m painfully ignorant on this topic, as I am on so many others, but way I see it, they get paid more than I do for a largely unskilled job (nobody has a doctorate in welding there, I’d imagine), they get nice assed benefits, as the Oakridger reports, without a cost increase, which I haven’t seen happen in years, and they still stike? Because they’d be dealing with non-unioned?
Now, we’re all down with Joe Hill, and I know a lot of people took some lumps so I don’t have to buy crap at the company store (and can blog from the work office, shhh), but seems that unions haven’t done much for the worker in the past 40 years or so. I’d even go as far as to say that because of union sponsored shenanagans that the cost of a great many things (GM, anybody?) has gone up quite a bit. So, in that sense unions are in the business of screwing everybody else so that they can get what they want.
Hmm. Who else screws everybody else so they can get what they want? Anybody? Have we been down this road before?
Yes, hes back again, the American Misanthrope. He’s a wascally guy.