Fire the Strikers

I hate extortion in any form.  

Thus,  I've never been a fan of workers going on Strike.  This is especially true for people who work in government or other public service jobs.   Refusing to do the job should result in termination.  Period.

Strikes cause  the wrong people to suffer. The  people who are hurt most by strikes are usually innocent victims:  travelers, students, patients, etc.   Ironically, those who suffer the effects of the strike will have such enmity for the strikers that they will blame the (non)workers rather than the company.  The long term effect of strikes is counterproductive.  I don't travel to France anymore; one reason is that I cannot count of a vacation that won't be ruined by striking workers.  

Currently sanitation workers normally serving 14 communities in Massachusetts  are on the umteenth day of a strike against Republic Services.  A messy situation indeed.   If I were running the company, I would tell the workers, "Show up tomorrow, ready to work or you will be fired."    Let the workers go somewhere where they can get a better deal.  

The competition for good workers should be enough to make the company offer a decent deal to its workforce.   A company has no inherent obligation to its workers other than to pay them the agreed upon wage for their labor.  Benefits were invented to make a company more competitive to the labor market;  they do not add to profits (which, after all, is the fundamental reason for a company to exist)

Let me be clear that I am not complaining about the union trying to obtain equity for workers to earn a decent wage in a safe environment with reasonable benefits.  

Ronald Regan handled a very dicey situation when air traffic controllers went on strike,  He fired the strikers and forbade them being rehired.  Yes, there was some brief interruption in service, but the planes did not fall from the sky.

So, like Regan, my solution is to fire the workers who don't show up.  Then the company can hire people who do want to work for that level of compensation.  

Yes, that could allow for some of the abuses that greedy bosses have always been prone to.  That is the province of laws, enacted by elected representatives, rather than self-serving union management.  Most high level union executives make more than $500K per year).