Here we have a fine example of the "work ethic" unions bring to the American workplace.
What employer wouldn't enjoy having their business staffed by workers who, like rattlesnakes, "will strike if provoked"? It's as enticing as working in a pit of vipers.
Way to go, Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers! Stick it to the man!
Because nothing says "hey, I'm a valued employee" more than creative go-getter stratgies like declaring "open season" on your manager, cutting communications cables, and throwing your own excrement.
By the way, how's that biting-the-hand-that-feeds-you mentality working out for you?
Keep it up and perhaps you'll achieve for the telecommunications industry what you did for the now-defunct U.S. steel industry and garment industry -- if employers don't find ways to automate your jobs out of existence.
Meanwhile, do you ever stop to wonder why so many employers aren't hiring?
The risks and costs of labor union strikes are one of the reasons. Add to that a mountain of state and federal employment-related laws and regulations, hefty taxation, paperwork, and the ever-present hazard of ruinous civil litigation, and it's surprising that anyone is still hiring.
But go ahead -- marinate in that victim mentality!
Strike, and strike, and strike at your employer again. Then five, ten, or 20 years from now perhaps you can slither over the remaining corpse and ask yourself why you have no job.
Update: Richard Epstein explains why the Communications Workers of America will likely come out the losers, and why collective bargaining ultimately helps no one
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