Very nice reply Woody..........

I think you hit the nail on the head. You ideas are pretty much my ideas. MANAGE, and do it right and you will not have issues.

When you do, react quickly, protect morale, and GET on with it.

People today look at a job, especially a union job as a privilege, instead of an opportunity.

If people would DO their job, excel at THEIR JOB and look for a better opportunity, when it is provided, the world would be a better place.

Instead UNIONS try to protect everyone, including the bad seeds.....

I'd not be nearly as hard on the UNIONS if their pay and contracts were based directly on performance. Increase net profits for the company by 10 percent.....SHARE in that wealth. Cause net profits to fall 10 percent.....SHARE that pain also.

In my job, I'm DIRECTLY responsible for my raise. When things are tight.....like now, and the past 3-4 years, raises are few and far between. That is expected as the health care business is in shambles. Now, my company is in pretty profitable right now, that is only because of significant CUTS elsewhere, including my health insurance. I don't bitch too much about that, I actually think the model we use is WHAT the entire country should use.....

At least I have a job, and my company is on TOP of the health care debate, and is working on other interesting ideas to sustain profits, and growth.

The world will be very interesting in a few years.......TO say the least.

Later,

Geo