Sarvis wrote:I don't care what the specific salary is. How would your butcher deal with having his earnings drop by half?
See, that's part of the problem. A butcher making 25k and losing half his income is devastating. Poverty-level disaster. Going from 430k or whatever it was to 260k is not. For a job that, in my opinion, doesn't deserve that high of a salary. If I'm making 300k here in the US and all of a sudden I take a 50% cut, that isn't devastating. I might have to do some hard adapting, but it's not devastating, just disruptive, like you said. I won't have to sell my home unless I, moronically, bought a house I can't afford (at either salary). I.e. tough shit. Also remember, these guys took, in theory, 3 years of "certification". We're not talking graduate school credit values here, major debt, etc. If they were making now 160k euros I would never have posted this.
dem wrote:I can't understand why your complaining about unions and strikes? Just because they are making more money as an aircontroller in spain then they are in the US. Your complaining that they arent allowed to go on strike because of their pay? Hell in norway they have twice the pay for the same job as they do in sweden, but they arent living and working in sweden now are they? and the aircontrollers in spain arent living and working in the states right?
Dem, you missed the point again. I don't care what they are making here in the US, or in Norway. That has zero to do with this thread, or the strike.
I care that they are making now 260k euros and went on strike (as air traffic controllers, not as newspaper vendors), causing massive disruptions to anyone traveling on business, pleasure or emergencies. I am NOT criticizing their "right" to go on strike (mostly), but their CHOICE to go on strike.