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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 607699" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>Just to preface, this may sound a tad harsh, for that I apologize. airbusfxr, I really know little about your current struggle, but I have tremendous respect for the job you and your brothers do keeping our air fleet running.</p><p></p><p>However,</p><p></p><p>IMHO, you are out of touch with current trends in this country, and if these current negotiations result in a strike you are in for a rude awakening, as are the IBT brothers who will undoubtedly and rightly support you.</p><p></p><p>In 1997 the IBT PR department brilliantly framed UPS as an evil greedy corporation screwing poor folks who just wanted to make a decent wage. They troted out single mom's who wanted full time work but evil UPS kept them in part time low paying jobs (never mind that is the way the work is organized). All this played well with the American public and the IBT by and large won their support.</p><p></p><p>If this goes into a strike, and you go into an interview with media and say "now ups wants me to make 75k and pay 400 a month for health care" with a tear in your eye, I would bet dollars to donoughts you will get a much different reaction. There are tons of folks out there working jobs just as challenging as yours making 50K and paying more like $600 a month for their own coverage, or going without. They will, I bet, grant you little sympathy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 607699, member: 14596"] Just to preface, this may sound a tad harsh, for that I apologize. airbusfxr, I really know little about your current struggle, but I have tremendous respect for the job you and your brothers do keeping our air fleet running. However, IMHO, you are out of touch with current trends in this country, and if these current negotiations result in a strike you are in for a rude awakening, as are the IBT brothers who will undoubtedly and rightly support you. In 1997 the IBT PR department brilliantly framed UPS as an evil greedy corporation screwing poor folks who just wanted to make a decent wage. They troted out single mom's who wanted full time work but evil UPS kept them in part time low paying jobs (never mind that is the way the work is organized). All this played well with the American public and the IBT by and large won their support. If this goes into a strike, and you go into an interview with media and say "now ups wants me to make 75k and pay 400 a month for health care" with a tear in your eye, I would bet dollars to donoughts you will get a much different reaction. There are tons of folks out there working jobs just as challenging as yours making 50K and paying more like $600 a month for their own coverage, or going without. They will, I bet, grant you little sympathy. [/QUOTE]
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