NetJets Pilots picket the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting

[Flying Saluki]

Customers could go and charter out while a strike is in place, but they'd lose money because they've already paid their annual ownership fees. They would not be very happy about that.

In the event of a strike, I assume NetJets would be liable to provide pro-rated refunds for the service interruption.

 

[KLB]

In the event of a strike, I assume NetJets would be liable to provide pro-rated refunds for the service interruption.

That loses the company money and it would be difficult to meet that type of demand on short notice. Plus NetJets has pretty high standards when it comes to aircraft and crew that aren't their own.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Perhaps "violence" is too strong a word, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility for incidents to occur when you gather together a large group of angry people.

It's also not beyond the realm of possibility that a masked madman is going to run into Chuck E. Cheese and shoot up all the kids, but I'm sure you don't keep your kids in the house out of fear of that. And frankly, that's more likely to occur than violence breaking out at an informational picketing event. There has NEVER been violence at such an event. Not once.

Regardless of that, however, it's still not a place for children.

It's a great place for children. Unless you can come up with a rational reason why it's not, it seems to me that you're just being needlessly alarmist.

 

[Inverted]

I think it's reprehensible that some people chose to bring their children to this event. Children should be in school, or home playing, or at practice or a scout meeting, not walking a picket line supporting something of which they have no understanding. Work problems are an adult's problems, and parents should not burden their children with them. Besides that, there is a very real potential for civil unrest and even violence at these things, and I wouldn't want my children anywhere near that. That's just irresponsible parenting.

That said, I think that informational pickets, and even the potential for a strike are going to have very little impact on the outcome. NJ's customers are the well-heeled, who tend to have a far better understanding of business reality than does the typical blue collar worker that these events are aimed at. If there is a strike, there are plenty of other options available for these travelers, right down to the charter operator at their local airport.

Another perfect example of someone who doesn't understand the scope of our operations, and why NetJets customers chose us in the first place.

 

[TWP]

How dare the unions want more! What a bunch of thugs trying to take from the company and the CEO who makes 20 times what they do in a year! Losers!

I don't care if they are picketing because they want Brawndo in the drinking fountains, if you don't push for an inch the company you work for will take ten miles.

It's got what plants crave.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

You realize that that sort of mindless rant is why people hate unions and why unions have lost so much in membership over the last few decades, right?

Unions are essential to protecting worker rights. But when you don't speak and behave rationally, you get nowhere.