economy/desperation

emeraldkity4
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:06:48 +0000

I appreciate everyones thoughts- and waiting for Barrons to take us out to dinner ;)

Anyway- while my grandfather worked at Boeing ( and weathered the 140 day strike in 1948) no one in my immediate family was union although I studied the Wobblies etc. like everyone else.
This particular strike is also tougher than most, because the sticking point seems to be not worth it for the workers & because of the sucky economy. H also pointed out, that with previous union strikes we have undergone, union leadership, also forgoes income for the length of the strike, this doesn’t seem to be the case with the Machinists- I know that many workers are frustrated and think that the union negotiators should be attorneys, as in other union negotiations.
It also doesn’t help when the strikers portrayed in the media seem to be a combination of Al Bundy and Archie Bunker with maybe a little Ralph Kramden thrown in.
not exactly evoking sympathy.

but H is at least busy- we didn’t have a freezer and my sister found a chest freezer on freecycle- so today he is working on installing it- ( at least he cleared out a bunch of crap out of the basement ) It is so big I think I could put a body in there.