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Originally Posted by MaxBuck
This is certainly one point of view. And though I'm no fan of unions, there's another point of view, that being that the companies agreed to those compensation and benefit terms. If you argue that the unions coerced management, I'd agree, but it's clear that management similarly coerced its labor for time immemorial.
I guess I am saying this not to take unions off the hook, but rather to share the blame with management. God knows there's plenty of blame to go around.  |
Yep.. Mgt. made bad calls and wasted money as well. The difference is those problems can be corrected, the systemic overpaying of wages/benefits is much more difficult to change (in the retiree category it is near immposible to change once payments begin).