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Breaking News BNSF dispatchers on Strike

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A few points. train dispatchers, like any other operating rr employee can be removed from service for cause. They get a good salary account they do a particularly stressfull job that soaks the life out of you. All things etc, at what point, given the state f the world in its entirety, does one have the right to fight an injustice? Or should they just lie back and take it for fear of being referred to as a "whiner." I'm for the side that makes sense, and against the side that won't lsten. Be that either side is labor or management. If this were a case of the dispatchers walking out because they want 3 days off per week, a thicker cushion on their chair, a clerk to sharpen their pencils, and a 2 hour lunch break, I would agree that they're whining. But after reading some of the links I don't think this is the case. The carrier wants to abrigate the contract sans negotiation. That isn't what the dispatchers had when they hired out. Nor is it something they should have run down their throats. There's an agreement in place and the carrier should have the guts to live with it until the next round of proper negotiations. I don't think someone should acuse another of "whining" about a situation until all facts are known. I wonder whose the real "whiner." Mitch
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