Why are the people who rely on these companies for a living treat their employers as the enemy, getting such pleasure from their pain? Do you think this helps their own individual and their families situation? What are they gaining? If you're represented by a union, then why not take some pride and live with your own personal integrity as your guide. Why not just do your job as it's been negotiated for you, and focus your energies on bettering your family's future through proactivity, on or off the job, whatever makes you happy. Nobody owes anyone a living, and your membership says that you agree to what your negotiators are able to obtain for you. That's what adults do. "Sticking a thumbtack on the teachers chair" at every opportunity is just a waste of everyones time and only shrinks the proverbial pie of your entitlement.Unless you just need someone to blame for your failures, a bad guy to pin the tragedy of your unrealized potential, unfulfilled dreams. I can understand that, that's human nature. The lawyers love you more and more at every action, as they bring out the knife, slicing off more of that coveted pie and stuffing in it in their fat little piggy faces.