No, I said the Union would not negotiate, the 9000 workers who lost their jobs did not have a say in the matter.
Again, I will bet you almost anything that most of those workers, givien the choice, would do without the raise if it meant keeping their job.
The Union is to blame for this, not the workers themselves.
Even if I take what you say at face value, and I don't, how does that measure up to these things:
US Bank cut 73,000 jobs.
Bank of America cut 35,000 jobs.
GM cut 34,000 jobs. HP, AT&T cut tens of thousands of jobs.
Those greedy bastards. If only they had a union to defend the workforce.
Yet you attribute the 9000 jobs lost to the greed of the Union.