We're not talking about "many times," we're talking about this time.
Yeah exactly, this time, with a company whos average salary is in the 80k range. But that's still not good enough for statist nitwits.
Unions are neither always good nor always bad.
You're the one ranting like they are always good, using your typical childish class-envy bullshit to justify all of your ignorant beliefs about unions. "Management is stealing everything and the poor, poor workers get nothing!"
Meanwhile, you clearly haven't even read my views on unions.
Yeah, right. I've known people who work for Boeing- virtually any position with them is pretty much one of the archetypical DREAM GIGS, at the top of the employment heap. It is not a company that doesn't compensate its workforce well, but in typical leftist class-envy fashion, you want to cast it as that.
You need to give up on childish black-and-white conceptions of things and actually looks at the case at hand. If the business were struggling and the management were sharing in that struggle, it would absolutely be terrible for the union to demand big raises and perks.
Look who's talking, yours are nothing but childish black and white conceptions.
It's not about the business struggling, or that everyone is greedy because YOU (and class-envy morons like you) say it is. It's about the fact that a business like any other entity is actually free to persue its own options that make the most sense for them. No business is just an extraction racket the way you class-envy morons always leech onto and try to make them into. They can look around, and see that another state (or even another country) will give them a better deal. If the unions are being prick assholes, they can make the decision into a no-brainer. It's no different than you as an individual deciding to pick up and move elsewhere if job conditions make it more favorable for you, and expecially if some external force where you are starts pushing you in a negative direction and taking money from you "because you don't deserve it, you greedy bastard!" You and anyone will act in your own best interests and a company is no different.
You're just a little child in your views who can't understand that. You think it's just greed if a company takes advantage of a situation that works better for them, even when it means a slew of workers saying "buh bye!" to their jobs in one location, while a bunch more pick up those same jobs elsewhere. Or worse, everyone saying goodbye to the jobs period, while the business just says F YOU, and leaves for good, or closes up operations.
Yet guaranteed, you're the same type that will whine incessantly about McDonalds and Walmart and minumum wage, even as you act like Boeing is the same type of company. You won't even make the connection, as your ilk does it whiney party to push all the decent high salary jobs elsewhere.
The truth is- I believe your ilk ENJOYS wallowing in shared misery, whining about McDonalds and Walmart and greedy CEOs more than the prospect of getting a decent high salary job that would require you to have any actual talent anyone wants to pay you for, and do some actual fucking work. The life of whining, leeching, grubbing for other people's money, and having your 'victories against da man!' when you help run businesses out is much easier.
Also, I find that first paragraph bizarre. "bunch of thugs just a generation away from the mob"? Do you seriously think most unions have any kind of organized crime connections whatsoever?
LOL, this is how ignorant you are. Pick up an actual history book. Many unions like the teamsters and others were forged straight out of the mob. The Hollywood entertainment unions were the brainchildren of the mob. To think the mob doesn't still have an interest in all that pension money and no-show jobs in construction and other industries is just STUPID. You're the one that needs to get to reality already. Are all unions mob-connected? Of course not. But are there still mob ties to some unions, including some of the most powerful? Ab-so-fucking-lutely. Only a complete dumbass thinks there's any reason why the mob wouldn't be attracted to such a lucrative operation as unions are.
but sometimes companies are greedy and corrupt, and letting either one completely gets its way is bad for everyone.
Yeah, yeah, we get it. Boeing is greedy and corrupt because they're "doing well" according to you, so therefore they can't operate in their own best interests, they will completely cede their freedom to move about the country and the world as they see fit, and pony up to whatever the demands of a bunch of class-envy driven dipshits are, even to their own detriment. Riiiiight.
Go back to whining about McDonalds and Walmart, it suits your ilk better, especially after you've done your part to ensure those are the only type of jobs left.