Loosing your pension is the way this works. Everyone's got to take risks and this is why pensions are a thing of the past and IMO should not be offered ANYWHERE EVER. "They" should pay a proper wage even in civil service jobs.
The last sentence Bama Earl pretty much nailed it. I've dealt with Unions from the management side and they suck a pair of stanky rutted up buck nuts on the 15th of January. But I've also sat in the board room and heard all the fat pocket dude's entitlement attitudes and zero respect for those that are actually making it happen for the company. I'm talking about some dude that couldn't even swing a hammer in a business where who's making him rich are people working with their hands. Jobs they themselves couldn't do in spite of their college degrees or "work" history.
The problem I know to be true is that the "Board of Directors" for most of these publicly traded companies are a dam joke at best they just let management run wild with compensation. At some level I believe the man at the top shouldn't be making $10 million per year while his average worker makes $10 an hour. That's real too. And a real problem in this Country. Things have gotten grossly out of whack.
Out of whack for sure... the top continues to get more and more wealthy. The gap between CEO and worker has never been this wide. What is another odd occurrence, the overwhelming support from middle-class America. They are quick to side with the business side over the workers... because it has become the rally of the far-right. The far-right leaders have taken Unions, which has been the fabric of the American workforce for 100 years, they have taken Unions and marked them a "Socialist".
