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Whatever your job is, if the wage you earn is not sustainable by the company or the industry it's in, then sitting on your fat ass and screaming about how unfair it all is, is besides the point. I'd like to assert that my job is worth a quarter mil a year. I demand that it is. But it's not. And there's not one single company on the planet who will pay me that. Now if through some strange confluence of events I managed to wrangle that concession from my company and low and behold, after a few years they couldn't afford it, the rational response would be to renegotiate that. Because more than zero is a higher number than zero.
For every attempt management makes at breaking the union, the union is playing an equally dangerous game of attempting to extract as much cash as possible out of the company before it goes broke. See no one is really interested in the long run viability, no one. Not the unions OR management. No one.
