Guv, now I'll hold my hand up high as a bloke that regularly rips the piss out of your plans – however, on this we’re united.
These septics haven’t quite grasped the concept of globalisation, as in – duh, ever heard of Ford ? Yeah, well guess what ? They build loads of cars in Europe, and indeed all around the world, with no, repeat NO, crap from the USA unions (e.g. the Teamsters – a right bunch of thugs, by any other name !) – and I’m right when I say that it (i.e. Ford), along with some other HUGE USA based multinationals, participate on a vast scale (i.e. even bigger sometimes than their USA activities) in business offshore from the USA mainland.
Now certainly if Atlas were ‘my’ company I’d ship the whole thing lock-stock-and-two-smoking-barrels offshore from the USA – just to prove that I could do it – it’s called being the boss, and it never pays to forget that everybody is expendable – and especially jumped out of their pram prima donna Atlas mainline pilots.
So, want some free advice ? It’d be to wind in yer kneck lads, and give your boss no cause to move the bulk of the company overseas (don’t forget that he’s already started do it! ) ; and please renounce any ideas that the shareholders would be on your side, because they’d love him for it - it’d increase their profits. Why ? Because he'd have reduced the operating costs, and they'd no longer have the threat of having to cowtow down to the extortion that your union would / plans to inflict upon the company when they stamp their foot and start shouting about your ‘rights’.
Ok, time to go and look in the dictionary at the meanings of ‘protectionism’ in all it’s forms, and ‘union racketeering’.
Ps. I’ve got a lovely view of an Atlas B74 from my window here at Enterprise House, here at Stansted Airport, and oh, look, I can see the UK based crews walking out to it too – goodonya lads !