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Unions exercising the one power they have 3x in 15 years (by your timeline; the url dates suggest otherwise) is ridiculous? What should they have done instead?
by tclancy 9y ago
Unions exercising the one power they have 3x in 15 years (by your timeline; the url dates suggest otherwise) is ridiculous? What should they have done instead?
- brightball 9y agoThis was a rejected offer from that 2008 article. The url without a date on it was March 17, 2000. > The company had offered union members raises over the next three years totaling 11% of current pay. Boeing also offered bonuses and pension improvements it said would give the typical worker about $34,000 in additional pay and benefits during that time. When you're given offers like that and rejecting them and it becomes a pattern that the company can expect to cost them billions of dollars every few years...what exactly do you expect company execs to do? Not have backup plans? This is a company that's literally handing out jobs throughout a lot of the worst periods of the US economy...and it warrants constant strikes? Look up some Airbus strikes for comparison. The articles I've seen are strikes over job cuts. There was a German strike at 4 plants that lasted...90 minutes. At some point...yes...it is ridiculous and there are a lot of other people who would be more than happy to have the jobs you're striking over.