On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:10:54 -0800, "Hawke"
wrote:


"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

Hawkie wrote:

So when the airline makes a corporate decision to risk lives and not
have
their employees do the maintenance required by law that is the union
workers
fault. If you idiots believe that then I have done my job of showing how
biased and ignorant you folks are. No matter what happens you always
find
everything is the union's fault and always hold the company harmless.
Just
like good brain dead republicans zombies. Your motto is the boss is
always
right. Unless you're Terrell and then they are making mistakes. What's
wrong
with this picture?


The only thing you've shown us is your continuing ignorance and
arrogance, big bird. You don't know enough of the real world to tell
anything to anyone. If someone breaks the law because their boss tells
them to, they are both guilty, just as you are of not seeing the real
issues. Lazy, inept, or dishonest workers lie and sign off for work
they didn't do, or didn't do properly and people die. They deserve to
be executed on live TV, no matter what their reason was.


You obviously have never actually known any union members. I would love to
hear you bad mouth a few teamsters or iron workers and see how you would
fare. I don't think they would agree with your biased and ill informed views
any more than I do. But they would kick your ass for the ignorant crap you
spew, limp or not.

Hawke

I was in Maine, back in the early 60's, when the Teamsters arrived to
modernize the archaic trucking business there - mostly owner-drivers.

The Union told the Truckers about all the benefits they were going to
get. the Truckers wanted to know where the money was going to come
from and the Union said, "we'll raise trucking rates".

The Truckers were savvy enough to understand that raising rates would
(possible) cause some people to go out of business and (maybe)
actually reduce the amount of freight available to be hauled.

Told the Union they guess they weren't interested. Union (apparently)
brought some hard men in and 5th wheel locks started coming undone
while people were having lunch.

Truckers started carrying deer rifles in the cabs. Union went back to
New York.

Independent Truckers - 1
Union - 0

(details furnished by a Maine State Police Lieutenant with whom I was
friendly at the time)


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)