Originally Posted by
Floyd
The determining factor of winners and losers in our case is not emotion. It's leverage, plain and simple. Leverage wins every time.
.............. Conversely, we could push the limits of societal norms without getting sued or fired and as long as we have leverage, we win.
.........You might not like a wristband campaign, .
Oh yeah, the win at all costs philosophy.....There are limits for some, outside of jail or lawsuits.
I’ve no problem with wristbands, ties, pins, hair ribbons or tattoos. Any you know well the objections remarked in this thread is with the ghetto language promoted by it. And btw, talk 2 minutes with most wrist band wearers and you’d get an ear full of emotion.
Leverage and emotion is a dangerous tool. It can easily go too far. Frank Lorenzo was a master at it, and used it successfully at CAL in ‘83.
Later at Eastern, it snowballed into a mutual suicide pact, both sides claiming victory as “Rome burned”.
Originally Posted by
baseball
Scabs, scab sympathizers, and management sucks ups to Fred Abbot, Fred Stankovich, Debbie McCoy, and even Gary Smallsack were the reasons CAL couldn't spell U N I O N, Friggin Ops Group...
I'd rather fight and lose a good fight than tuck my tail and hide from management during a contract fight.
Just curious Baseball, were you hired at Cal/PEX/FAL/NYA sometime between 81-86? Judging from your post I might guess that except some things tell me you and Patroni were just based in EWR with a bunch of them for a long time.