On Feb 1, 2:29 pm, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
b wrote:

On Jan 30, 8:35 am, wrote:

Now I could see "this is bad, it just cost you your next raise" or
something like that. But to fire him ?

People **** up maintaining jets and **** and do not lose their job
over it. People **** up designing the junk goods, including cars that
Americans buy, and don't lose their job over it. Cops and doctors ****
up and people are DEAD because of it and they do not lose their job.

JURB

a clear cut case of why unions were formed and why they are so
necessary still.
welcome to the wonders of industrial relations in a market
economy.....

Bull****. If electronic repair was a union job, no one on earth
could afford to repair anything.

....says who? Open your eyes - the REAL reason nobody can afford to
repair anything is because the electronics industry is allowed to do
what it likes, building ever cheaper consumer items for which spares
are at best hideously expensive or at worst not even available.
Result: the company directors and a few shareholders make more, whilst
the consumer suffers and has to foot the bill for the environmental
costs of this stupidity. Unions are not always perfect i admit, but
at least in their presence abusive treatment of workers like the OP
described would be less common. Don't know about you, but I believe
that profit is not more important than people.

BTW, that union went on strike in the late '60s, demanding a double
digit pay increase. The company went to Mexico and built a 'module'
plant to build subassemblies. By the time they finished their ****ing
match, the people who still had a job went back at exactly half of what
they were making before that strike, and over half the jobs stayed in
Mexico.

the only thing that this proves is you had a weak government who
allowed this shameful corporate behaviour to go on at the expense of
the citizens who elected it and whose interests it was supposed to be
representing. Funny how , in the neoliberal ideology, capital can
cross borders freely but people can't....