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Hawke wrote in article
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The union handling crane erection in NYC has to be proud of their
fine
craftsmanship and work safety these days..................


Lowest common denominator, once again?


Probably a business cost cutting measure. Like the recent one where
Southwest Airlines wanted to save money and decided they didn't want to
perform all the required maintenance on some of their planes. Lucky for
them
they didn't have any crashes but that's management for you.


Interestingly, the A&P mechanics who service these planes and sign off on
their safety are union people.

Why weren't THEY standing up and refusing to sign off on these possibly
unsafe planes?

And, don't give me that BS about being overridden by management.

The MLB players union recently threatened to boycott the Japan trip
because
coaches were not going to be paid.

The truth is that the union couldn't care less about the traveling
public.....just their own members.

If it were up to me, the first thing I would go after would be the
licenses
of the mechanics - union or not - who signed off and allowed these planes
to continue to fly without undergoing the required safety inspection......


You missed something here. It isn't the union workers that determine what
work is to be done on the planes. The union doesn't own the planes the
company does. All the company does is hire the mechanics to do the work they
assign to them. If they only give them half the assignments the FAA says are
required it's not the responsibility of the union workers to fix that. If an
airline is cutting costs that endanger that safety of the public it's up to
the agency that oversees the industry to do something about it. Not the
flight attendants, mechanics, or baggage handlers. So you are barking up the
wrong tree and are blaming the wrong people. But that is to be expected when
you are always looking to find fault with a union. In other words, when
you're biased.

Hawke