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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 5650199" data-attributes="member: 4550">I&#039;d agree.&nbsp; Nobody really does know which is why I&#039;d never assume she and the board are making decisions strictly on the basis of numbers.&nbsp; The company is a major player in ALEC, one of the biggest corporate lobby bill mills to ever excert influence over not only federal but most state legislatures and it desperately doesn&#039;t want to appear as if it capitulated to &quot;demands&quot; from a union, which is an entity that the ALEC organization not only wants weakened but pretty much eliminated altogether.I&#039;ve read many here floating the theory that the company postponed it&#039;s earnings call to August 8th strictly in an effort to conceal increasing profits, which would suggest a reactionary move.&nbsp; What if it&#039;s actually a proactive move in a longer term strategy to divide the rank and file? How will hourlies on picket lines feel a week into it if the company comes out and states &quot;Things were looking pretty good until the union leaders got greedy, so now everything we had agreed to before the strike, AC, elimination of 22.4, MLK, is in danger of being off the table...&quot;?The company didn&#039;t invest several decades worth of attempts to render the union ineffective only to watch that pendulum swing back the other way over the course of one contract.&nbsp; If it thinks the chances of inflicting permanent damage on O&#039;Brien and his far more confrontational tone than his predecessor are even close to 50%, then losing a percentage of volume for several years might not cause it to blink an eye much less prioritize that over an ideology it has placed as one of it&#039;s core goals for decades on end.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 5650199, member: 4550"] I'd agree. Nobody really does know which is why I'd never assume she and the board are making decisions strictly on the basis of numbers. The company is a major player in ALEC, one of the biggest corporate lobby bill mills to ever excert influence over not only federal but most state legislatures and it desperately doesn't want to appear as if it capitulated to "demands" from a union, which is an entity that the ALEC organization not only wants weakened but pretty much eliminated altogether. I've read many here floating the theory that the company postponed it's earnings call to August 8th strictly in an effort to conceal increasing profits, which would suggest a reactionary move. What if it's actually a proactive move in a longer term strategy to divide the rank and file? How will hourlies on picket lines feel a week into it if the company comes out and states "Things were looking pretty good until the union leaders got greedy, so now everything we had agreed to before the strike, AC, elimination of 22.4, MLK, is in danger of being off the table..."? The company didn't invest several decades worth of attempts to render the union ineffective only to watch that pendulum swing back the other way over the course of one contract. If it thinks the chances of inflicting permanent damage on O'Brien and his far more confrontational tone than his predecessor are even close to 50%, then losing a percentage of volume for several years might not cause it to blink an eye much less prioritize that over an ideology it has placed as one of it's core goals for decades on end. [/QUOTE]

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