The unions are calling it irresponsible and this, that and the other thing.
All I see are airline unions causing problems for airlines.
They want more of this, that and the other thing.
Maybe they should be happy they even have jobs.
I guess that kind of thinking, even in a global economy that is screwed up almost
everywhere, doesn't exist with union workers.
Greed, selfishness and revenge. If they don't get
what they want, then by golly they're going to go
on strike.
I think Qantas has the right idea. Why continue to put up with
it? Shut the entire airline down and then see how happy they people are
to be locked out of work and receiving - NO paycheck at all.
How does a union, in striking, help a company in a wretched economy?
Oh, well I guess Qantas is making money.
I dunno. I am not getting a pension when I retire.
Whatever I saved up - that's what I get. If I didn't save anything, then
God help me, because I will need it.
I just have no sympathy with most of these unions after you learn about
each one that is making trouble - they are already living the life with
high pay and great benefits. But greed knows no boundaries. Yes, I do
call it greed.
Speaking of saving, the newest tenant - he's somewhere in his 50's - admitted last
night about having so much taken out of his paychecks that he is forced to live on
macaroni and other such lovely substances.
But when I pressed him on it, he started naming off his savings accounts.
Home savings account; cash savings account; retirement savings and even
more. I'm already where he's at: petrified at the thought of getting into
my 60's and being broke or nearly so. Further illuminated by the fact
that my dad, who had originally made me almost sole inheritor of his estate has
now informed me that all of it is going to his current wife and I get none of it.
I don't blame him, of course, that's his call, but it only further serves to light
a fire under my feet. I wonder if he would take offense if I took out an insurance
plan on him? No, probably not the greatest idea I guess.
No, the only thing I can do is continue to increase savings amounts until I can't have
anymore taken out. I am doing that in small increments, slowly, over time. How much
can I handle have taken out? Increase it 1 or 2 percentage points at a time and find
out.
Further continuing on the finanicial realm, my ex messaged me yesterday on FB and told me she had lost her job. No details, just that statement. I have always known her as a hard worker, so it is surprising that she said she lost her job, but, the place she was working apparently doesn't treat it's employees too well.
The thought has occurred to me that I better get my dogs micro chipped. I have no idea what depths these feral cat lovers are willing to stoop to, but the thought certainly has crossed my mind that my dogs might be targeted. They have made it exceedingly clear that telling the truth is not on their list of anything to do at all if it doesn't serve their purpose, or worse, if it may harm them by saying such. They have demonstrated that they are willing to illegally enter my property by jumping a fence. They have showed their disgust for me by calling me all manner of foul language. In their eyes, I am a truly contemptible human being. I need not go into all the story, if you are not a regular reader of this blog and want to know - it's all in current entries in the last several weeks worth.
I can't be here 24 hours a day, neither do I want to be and neither will I be chained here because of other people's stupidity. I have not trapped any cats in a few weeks and then, it was that black one that I was going to let go anyway - that the woman behind me jumped the fence and let it out.
So, that on the list of things to get done, $25 per dog.
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Long interlude. Accomplished quite a lot outside today. Which doesn't mean I'm anywhere near being done. Which is cool - because I am totally enjoying being outside in nice weather. I don't have to spend money to be out there, I have most everything I need, whatever I am lacking is a pair of gloves here, a bolt there.
I rechecked the city's site today on the code violations. The people behind me are busy out there, all of a sudden. I see. Mine says "initial inspection". Umm, okay. They have been inspected, I am guessing - but the site doesn't show it has been done, only that the initial inspection is still awaiting. They don't do that kind of work unless they are forced to. Others have complained in the past, but the work only went on so long and then it died out. It's not going to go that easy for them this time. They are living in squalor and filth, hoarders that could qualify for the TV show, I am sick of it and now they have given me reason to start a campaign. Clean it up - all of it, get it out of there. When you are done - months later - you will feel much better about it.
Tomorrow en-queue. Start off the morning with coffee, go outside and do some more work, come back in to get ready for church. And then? My son wanting this coffee date. I have no idea. But I am certainly intrigued. What does he want to tell me? Lord willing, we'll see.
G'nite.
ben
2 comments:
about Qantas and other strikes.... what the press writes is often "they want more money". That is often NOT the case, only a small part. It is more often better working conditions, but the press doesn't write about that.
Take our ATC here in Germany. They threatened to strike because the bosses planned to raise the amount of overtime the controllers would be forced to work, no matter how tired or unconcentrated they would get. Their request for pay raises was NOT the main issue, but that's what the press mentioned! No mention of the safety issue behind more overtime, reduced number of controllers on duty in some sectors, etc. Even our stupid minister of traffic believed the press more then the controllers union! The ATC has taken the union to court a number of times and LOST every time, yet they keep trying to "force" the issue their way. And ATC is such a specific job and and monopolist provider that they just can't quit and go somewhere else to work. This provider may be 100% owned by the government but they are NOT government run, the controlers are not civil servants.
So there are always two sides to the story and not always what the press writes. Go to pprune.org and search there for the proper discussion about it.
Sorry, just had to let that out *wink*
I don't necessarily look at unions as evil, but when it's just pure greed in an already faltering, global economy, I just fail to have sympathy. Yes, we are all at the mercy of the news media to accurately report situations - which is why I go to both ends of that spectrum and others in between to see if there are any discrepancies in any given story - Fox news being at one end and MSNBC being at the other and various agencies in between.
As for Qantas, the unions are upset that the company wants to send out jobs to another nation - wherever that "Qantas infuriated unions in August when it said it would improve its loss-making overseas business by creating an Asia-based airline with its own name and brand.
The five-year restructure plan will cost 1,000 of Qantas' 35,000 jobs."
I don't see anywhere about working conditions in this scenario. It's a similar story to Boeing building a manufacturing plant in - North Carolina was it? - and the unions in the northwest saying that they had done it deliberately to get away from union labor and thusly, filing suit in federal court or wherever to force Boeing to stop building aircraft in that state.
Yeah, well, I bet those people in the Carolinas aren't unhappy about having all those jobs created and giving people work, regardless if it's a union or right to work state. Since when should a union be able to hog tie a business and tell them where they can manufacture whatever it is they are producing?
I am sure you are right that there are other scenarios where union members are wanting to make the workplace a safer place, but from I have been reading for a couple of years now about unions? It's mostly about money, pension plans and benefits and their demands that they want more of it.
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