Strikes Are For Losers

The featherbedded dinasaurs are flicking their tails in a last atavistic spasm of futile gesturing. Strikes are for losers because they are an act of desperation by the powerless. What they cannot win by persuasion or strength of intelligence they seek to win by brute force. But striking is a very blunt instrument and it usually lands on the strkers.

It goes like this. Stike affects productivity and reputation of the company which causes loss of buiness to rival companies which causes yet more job losses. A three year old child could figure it out and it doesn't require much intelligence but since when were unions ever known for their intelligence?

There is a bigger issue here and that is why people place themselves in a position where they are dependent on a parent company to employ them. The employer gives them a job and the job represents a comfort zone for them, almost like a welfare situation. No thought is required, they merely turn up every day at bicycle factory number 26, go through a series of prescribed motions and pick up their paycheck at the end of the month. They react with childlike hostility and tantrums when they are informed that they may not have a job for life and could face redundancy.Reduced to a state of near infantilism they begin to throw their toys out of the playpen and go on strike.The company owes them a job for life!

Militant economic illiteracy and ignorance is badge they wear with pride. They took no part in creating the company they work for and have no conception of how the market operates. It is very hard to be an employee and actually mature into an adult and clearly the postal workers have failed to make the transition.