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[quote]QUOTE: Frankly folks I personally have no toleracne for what seems here to be a "WORK LESS, GET PAID MORE" attitude and that same attitude of the unions in general (oh, boy am I going to stir up a hornets nest here). The way I was raised by my parents (my Dad was a union member in a blue collar profession by the way), was that you got paid a fair wage for a fair days work and if you didn't like what you were getting paid, YOU WERE FREE TO QUITE YOUR JOB AND FIND A NEW ONE AT ANY TIME. [/quote] First off, lets get some stuff straight here, most important is a job action such as a walk-out (strike) is the last thing a union and its membership wants. Fact is that most (98%) contract negotiation or grievances are solved without any jobs actions. Next, the only tool that labor has is a job action, the act of withholding work from the employer. Over the last 30 years and the erosion of labor law protection from the federal government, the strike is labors only tool left. You assume that you know what the issue was about, and then summarize it for us "trains forums" members by saying something like, lets see - quote: "WORK LESS, GET PAID MORE" as the issue over this stoppage. The only report for the reason for this stoppage in the accounts I've read is a BNSF management spokespersons quoted as follows: "The walkout was over a dispute concerning personal leave, according to BNSF spokesman *** Russack." The above quote from BNSF's *** Russack in no way equates to your "WORK LESS, GET PAID MORE" summation. Then you go on to make this statement: "that you got paid a fair wage for a fair days work and if you didn't like what you were getting paid, YOU WERE FREE TO QUITE YOUR JOB AND FIND A NEW ONE AT ANY TIME." This is completely managements answer to the world of employment, this not any statement that would be spoken by any rank and file bother or sister. This job action by BNSF represented "American Train Dispatchers Association" employees was not done lightly, but it was planned to optimize its affect. The union knew there would be an injunction against the walkout and looked for the optimum window, seems they found it The union, after much negotiation with less than a good faith effort by BNSF, wanted to bring home to the company their membership was united in solidarity over the issue at hand. Anyway, just my thoughts on the matter. Jim - Lawton, NV MP 236
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