Why Strike Now?

Don't unions realize that the more they take from the businesses that are struggling now, the more likely there soon won't be any business there to employ their members? They priced themselves out of the Steel market, and it disappeared as a U. S. industry, leaving many, many union employees without jobs. Now they're trying their best to do the same in the airplane-building industry. They talk about labor being "outsourced" as a "Gripe." But it's actually a SYMPTOM of the REAL problem, which is wages and other costly things companies must provide being "too much." so they outsource so they can afford to stay in business. Boeing says they're losing $100 MILLION dollars a DAY because of this strike (the second strike in TWO contract negotiations). They don't realize that maybe, just maybe, if they made it a little easier on Boeing, they might not outsource. If the wages and other costs involved in employing these unionized employees were not WAY too high, they wouldn't NEED to outsource. (Yahoo News)