[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: HP & DH Movie

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

Carol wrote:

Carol,  still hoping for an end to the strike for all concerned, with
the best  interests of everyone prevailing over self-interest (and I'm
talking about  both sides here)




Sandy:
 
As reluctant as I am, I have to jump in on this, and I  have to side with the 
writers.
 
I am a Union employee and I and my fellow co-workers  missed going on strike 
by 45 minutes back at the end of October. I have to tell  you that going on 
strike would have been totally devastating for me financially,  but I was 
totally prepared to do it, and, jn fact, I still believe we should  have. 
 
I have seen corporate greed at it's worst, and I firmly  believe that if 
there is any "self-interest" involved it is all on the part of  the corporation, 
company, conglomerate - whatever that the writers work  for.
 
I think it's a shame that unions have to exist and  strikes have to occur, 
but they are unfortunate neccessities in corporate  America. I work for a 
company that made over a billion dollars in profit in  2006, yet I barely manage to 
get by despite the Union. The CEO made four million  in 2006; I made 18 
thousand. The only thing I got out of the new contract was a  30 cent raise a year 
for the next three years. But not to worry, the company  knows how to not lose 
any profits on that - they cut our hours.
 
 
If what Kemper said in a post upthread is true, the  writers are asking for 
peanuts, but it would cut into profits and management is  not going to go for 
that if they can at all prevent it. They are not hurting  right now so they 
will try to wear the writers down because they are. Corporate  greed is an ugly 
thing.
 
Sandy, who plans on retiring at the end of this year,  much sooner than she 
should, but who can't take working for her employer a  minute longer than she 
has to.



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