School Year Just Begun, Teachers Strike Looms in Chicago

[Honeycombe8]

12. Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just saying that that is one of the effects.

The unions need public support. It's a bad visual for people to be picketing or striking to get or keep something, in the midst of a deep recession with millions losing their jobs and their homes. It causes resentment and feeds the perception that unions are greedy.

What you say is true. But what I say is true, also, IMO.

No skin off my nose. I'm just pointing out that a victory for the short term in some cases leads to a loss in the long term.

(BTW...shareholders did take big hits on dividends and share value during the recession. Companies were taking huge losses, generally, as well. Everyone was suffering. Except some union workers, who continued, and expected to continue, along as if there was no storm of a recession around them.)