[427TJ]

I hear you Ken but every time a company has gone bankrupt and/or out of business management took it there. Labor may share some blame in some cases but it's up to management where the company goes--that's why they're management. If your employees ask for too much, and they're non-union, you just ignore them or fire them, right? If they don't like that then they can go somewhere else. Since labor unions are an endangered species in this country there really are no worries in the corporate boardroom. (There's always China and India if these G-damn unions won't play ball.)

If you have happy and content employees it's because of how you manage your business. Care for them and they'll care for you (see: Southwest, Toyota, BMW--all unionized here in the USA, right?). Piss on them and break promises and they'll feel betrayed. Wouldn't you? Eastern Airlines had labor troubles but it was management who decided to kill it off--and walk away with golden parachutes. Management steered Chrysler onto the rocks in the 1970s and they're doing it again. Labor loses when management decides to kill the company. (Mangement takes their golden parachutes and heads to the French Riviera for six months of recuperation.) Smart labor knows well that if the company profits then (hopefully) so will labor.

Management always takes the credit when money is being made and blames labor when the company loses money. Who will management blame when unions have all been busted? Yep, China and India. (Those G-damn foreigners.) (Management will then beg the Federal Government to come in and bail them out.)

Management steers the company ship--no matter where the company goes management steered it there.