Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
A hand held calculator ( Texas Instrument (add, subtract, multiply, divide, square, sq root, sin, cos) in 1975 cost $700. So today it should cost what?.....$3,300! But yet when I go to the store it is $1 and it has solar power as well as internal battery
Things are worth what the market will bear....nor more, no less
That’s true, unfortunately we have a labor market hindered by the RLA. That alone limits our negotiating power and sets an artificial time line that is easily manipulated by management by either early pressure when the time frame is conducive to less value ie early (2015) or stalling (2019) or immediate (2020). This is not a fair or free market.