At the risk of severely decreasing the chuckle-value of this chuckle-centric thread, I really mean no more than to say any group of workers griping in the middle of a recession about how they are mistreated at a job that pays them sometimes up to $100,000 annually plus health benefits, and paid sick days and vacations, is going to be taken as an insult by those who earn next to nothing working at jobs that sometimes require much higher qualifications.
Particularly when the demands of the former are actually directly affecting the latter in a negative way by driving up transit costs and fares to outrageous prices, and draining public funding away from other areas where the money would go a lot further for a much larger group of people. Not to mention that there is something sinister about an organization that can force all its workers, regardless of political or ethical stance on the motivating issue, to go on a general strike at risk otherwise of becoming a "scab."
It's like a fat kid demanding that he should get a larger share of the cake because he eats cake all the time.* You don't need to be Rush Limbaugh to see something wrong with that.
And that is all I'm going to say on this topic unless a seperate thread is created. Back to chuckling.
*An issue that would be resolved if there were an infinite amount of cakes, but the force of this argument, I think, is that there isn't.