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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 5650495" data-attributes="member: 4550">That&#039;s a possibility, but I wouldn&#039;t put anything in the &quot;likely&quot; category given how little anybody not in the room during the last round of negotiations really has to go on. Here&#039;s what we do know.&nbsp; A strike might hurt upper management&#039;s bottom line in the near term, but it&#039;s not as if any of those few elites would have to work another day in their lives even if that were to occur.&nbsp; It&#039;s not as if they couldn&#039;t afford the short term pain and if they saw an opportunity to increase the chances of achieving long term goals by taking on a short term hit, then whatever collateral damage occurs in the wake of that pursuit could be deemed as acceptable in their eyes. Did the orchestrators of the Enron fraud really care that their schemes destroyed a company and turned a majority of it&#039;s employees&#039; lives upside down?&nbsp;&nbsp; Not really.&nbsp; Most of them just went on to work at places like Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil and just employed the same tactics on a far wider scale thus driving up energy prices for far more people by due to rampant speculation in energy markets.&nbsp; All the destruction and upheaval they caused the first time didn&#039;t deter them from pursuing their ideological ambitions a second time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 5650495, member: 4550"] That's a possibility, but I wouldn't put anything in the "likely" category given how little anybody not in the room during the last round of negotiations really has to go on. Here's what we do know. A strike might hurt upper management's bottom line in the near term, but it's not as if any of those few elites would have to work another day in their lives even if that were to occur. It's not as if they couldn't afford the short term pain and if they saw an opportunity to increase the chances of achieving long term goals by taking on a short term hit, then whatever collateral damage occurs in the wake of that pursuit could be deemed as acceptable in their eyes. Did the orchestrators of the Enron fraud really care that their schemes destroyed a company and turned a majority of it's employees' lives upside down? Not really. Most of them just went on to work at places like Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil and just employed the same tactics on a far wider scale thus driving up energy prices for far more people by due to rampant speculation in energy markets. All the destruction and upheaval they caused the first time didn't deter them from pursuing their ideological ambitions a second time. [/QUOTE]

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