When the pro-management posters say Vote No, I do have to think if this is pscyhological warfare to get me to vote yes, or its an honest assessment of just how bad of a deal this is? :unsure: :unsure:
Perhaps it is just a sign that even AMR pro-management types understand that you can reach for, "A Bridge Too Far," in that your attempt at closing the circle may well leave you occupying a position that is not sustainable.
Or, it could be a reading of the political "tea-leaves," in that the upswell of opposition to TWU/AFL-CIO incompetence creates soo much uncertainty that no one is willing to bankroll anything until things settle down and the water becomes a little clearer.
If you earn your dollar by the hour, keep the water muddy upstream from whatever opposition faces you.
Orwell, Animal Farm, "All animals are created equal, some animals are more equal than others."
Animal Farm, Chapter 10
"...Years have passed, and many of the animals are dead. Only Clover, Benjamin, Moses and some of the pigs remember the days before the rebellion. Clover is by now very old, well past retirement age, except that no animal has actually managed to retire yet.
The windmill has finally been completed. It is used for milling corn, rather than for generating electricity, and brings a good profit to the farm. Another windmill is now being built to generate electricity. There is no more talk of the three-day week, or any of the other luxuries that Snowball originally promised would accrue from the windmill.
The farm is growing richer, but the animals themselves do not seem to benefit much from it. There are many pigs and dogs on the farm now. The pigs are all involved in the bureaucracy of running the farm, and are not available to do any actual work, though Squealer makes it clear to the others that what the pigs do is of vital importance to the farm. Squealer continues to impress everyone with detailed figures of how everything has improved on the farm, but deep down the animals are unable to reconcile this with the lack of improvement in their own conditions. Nonetheless, Animal Farm remains the only farm in England to be owned by the animals, and the animals remain enormously proud of this..."
"...The chance to protest is gone. Clover goes to the gable wall and brings Benjamin with her. She asks Benjamin to read for her what is on the gable wall. All the commandments are gone, and all that is written there now is “All animals are equal, But some animals are more equal than others.”"
