Boston Globe rejects cuts

[SF_Express]

So now we know the real value of "lifetime job guarantees":

They're worth the difference between a 5.94 percent wage cut and a 23 percent wage cut.

The next union that takes a proposal of "lifetime" anything back to its membership should immediately be shot.

Well, Joe, not to be simplistic about it, but the odds of "lifetime" anything ever being offered to anybody again are, simply, none. Not even worth mentioning slim.

 

[WriteThinking]

So now we know the real value of "lifetime job guarantees":

They're worth the difference between a 5.94 percent wage cut and a 23 percent wage cut.

The next union that takes a proposal of "lifetime" anything back to its membership should immediately be shot.

Well, Joe, not to be simplistic about it, but the odds of "lifetime" anything ever being offered to anybody again are, simply, none. Not even worth mentioning slim.

And, these days, no one would ever expect it.

 

[Joe Williams]

So now we know the real value of "lifetime job guarantees":

They're worth the difference between a 5.94 percent wage cut and a 23 percent wage cut.

The next union that takes a proposal of "lifetime" anything back to its membership should immediately be shot.

Well, Joe, not to be simplistic about it, but the odds of "lifetime" anything ever being offered to anybody again are, simply, none. Not even worth mentioning slim.

That's my point, though. It was silly to even negotiate "lifetime" this or that when tough times and the next round of contract talks could swat it away. Especially when those voting aren't the ones necessarily the ones with the "lifetime" whatevers.

Guess part of me thinks a union that negotiates "lifetime" this or that for its members needs to throw itself on that grenade in all future talks. I know that's completely unrealistic, but "lifetime" ought to be excised from people's vocabulary if neither side is going to back it up. Just plain silly.