...a well balanced and thought through post.
I am done with the handbags but you already got a taste of what the state of mind of some EK apologists is, brace for more!
Unions, the evil forces that destroy the work of the noble managers!
I dont know a lot about Balpa, but we are talking about LH, where the unions are an integral part of the success and the social stability.
As in whole Germany the unions and companies mostly try to work together to solve problems and survive any crisis. Why is the most unionized industry, like car makers and machinery engineering, the backbone of the success story of Germany's export?
Just look at the sad state of the US industry leading to the eradication of the middle class caused to a great extend by union bashing! Although the neo-cons, while giving tax breaks for companies shipping jobs out of the US, will blame the unions for that as well.
With the power the corporations have over most governments, the slogans like "globalization", "fair trade" and "developing nations" are just that...smoke and mirrors for their greedy plans to make the whole world a big market without any rules for them.
But like you see there are always selfish individuals who see a union as an kind of worthless insurance policy and don't see the social responsibilities with their co-workers.
As long as they are getting a high salary they are fine with everybody else getting shafted...they are the perfect puppets for the masters in the middle east...and watch them cry foul when THEY eventually get f
d.
A big problem of globalization is the trend to raise the profits to western standard but lower the conditions for workers to third world level...and thereby destroying what generations have fought for...the outcome will sadly be social unrest...