 why work when you can strike  i m going to use a soft touch on this article because goons sent by union bosses are scary people but in the category of what were they thinking as opposed to my original way of putting it 86 of uaw local 602 are clueless i m glad i didn t put it that way that really sounded mean the union voters in all their wisdom have decided that striking would be a great idea  united auto workers local 602 president bill reed said 86 percent of workers voting approved a strike authorization measure voting wrapped up this morning we ve sat and listened to the needs of the business and we feel that what we re asking for is more than fair and equitable and we d like to have their respect to recognize us and come back to the table and talk said local 602 president bill reed left out was the implicit threat of gm executives knees being in imminent danger of being broken i have no idea what the sticking points are i would assume that since gm has been profitable for the first time in years because of poor business decisions ahem the volt and the horrible weight of union contracts of years past it is time once again for the man to pay the big bucks for the highly skilled labor that could not easily be moved out of the country and done in mexico at a fraction of the price note to liberals that was sarcasm i would like to address the union workers i have never been part of a union but really it s not bad out here in the wilds of the nonunion workforce we don t scramble for scraps and huddle around fire barrels to keep warm i happily enjoy the fact that none of my money is taken out of my paycheck for union dues though i do admit that i pay federal taxes and both your union dues and my federal taxes eventually end up at the same place the pockets of democrats what happens is that if you are a valuable member of the company each year at review time you are given a raise if you have proven yourself to be able to increase the companies ability to profit sometimes if the company has not done well in the year previously there are no raises or they are small it happens there are no contractual disputes not votes are taken if i was really annoyed at my company i could search for a different employer on the other hand i can be fired immediately if i performed poorly or i could be fired without cause them s the breaks this decision doesn t appear to be welltimed i suppose the union leadership gave a great ra ra speech or quoted marx or put something in the koolaid or whatever it is they do but voluntarily giving up work in a down economy obama s economy doesn t sound like a well thought out decision not something those of us living in the wilds of scary capitalism would do  