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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 5650775" data-attributes="member: 4550">I didn&#039;t attempt to imply you did state there wouldn&#039;t be a strike.&nbsp; I&#039;m merely correlating the similarity between the general attitude among hourlies now at this point compared to mid July of &#039;97.&nbsp; We were all being told not to say anything to alarm customers and that prior contracts often weren&#039;t settled until just before the current agreement expired.&nbsp; There&#039;s many here that believe (or perhaps hope) that it can&#039;t or won&#039;t come to that this time.&nbsp; They shouldn&#039;t kid themselves by thinking some hedge fund or big institutional investor can simply place a phone call to company headquarters and convince the board to suddenly change course.As for my OP or premise, I see it as every bit as possible as anything else I&#039;ve read being floated here.&nbsp; The company is more committed to ALEC than it is the customer or it&#039;s workforce, of which a majority of it they have treated as disposable for many contracts in a row dating back decades.&nbsp; It&#039;s attempted to weaken worker protections, attempts to unionize for the sake of collective bargaining over and over again in states from coast to coast from a distance.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why anybody would dismiss the possibility of it attempting to inflict harm on one directly if they thought it had a 50/50 chance at succeeding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 5650775, member: 4550"] I didn't attempt to imply you did state there wouldn't be a strike. I'm merely correlating the similarity between the general attitude among hourlies now at this point compared to mid July of '97. We were all being told not to say anything to alarm customers and that prior contracts often weren't settled until just before the current agreement expired. There's many here that believe (or perhaps hope) that it can't or won't come to that this time. They shouldn't kid themselves by thinking some hedge fund or big institutional investor can simply place a phone call to company headquarters and convince the board to suddenly change course. As for my OP or premise, I see it as every bit as possible as anything else I've read being floated here. The company is more committed to ALEC than it is the customer or it's workforce, of which a majority of it they have treated as disposable for many contracts in a row dating back decades. It's attempted to weaken worker protections, attempts to unionize for the sake of collective bargaining over and over again in states from coast to coast from a distance. I don't know why anybody would dismiss the possibility of it attempting to inflict harm on one directly if they thought it had a 50/50 chance at succeeding. [/QUOTE]

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