Now that's just plain stupid

News today (link) is that it appears that flight attendants for Nortwest Airlines may go on strike soon.  But this isn't the typical type of strike you normally hear about.  No, this is a "chaos strike".  Oooh.

During this chaos strike, workers will show up for work as though they normally would.  Then, as the flight is preparing to board, they will walk off.  This will cause chaos because the airline will have to scramble to find other available attendants to work on the flight, meaning the flight will likely be delayed.  This will also cause many flights to be canceled.

Stupid!  Stupid!  Stupid!  This is yet another way Unions are ruining America.  For workers to be able to get away with this just blows my mind!  I could never do anything like this at my job and get away with it.  Then again, I could never decide not to work for days\weeks\months and get away with it either.

This will really hurt customers.  The employees are so selfish that they don't care about that at all.  Really sad.  Sure, during a full-scale strike, customers are affected, but at least they know what to expect.  Here they have no idea what to expect.

I've had trouble finding detailed information on what is causing this strike.  The best I could find was that Northwest is trying to cut 40% of the attendants' salary and benefits, but I have no idea how that breaks down.  It doesn't matter though.  The situations is pretty simple to me.  If the employees don't like it, they should quit.  Find another job somewhere else and quit working for Northwest.  If Northwest wants to cut pay and benefits, they should do it.  If an employee walks out, fire them.

I know this probably sounds pretty cut-throat to some of you, but it really isn't.  The people that quit will obviously be fine because they found a job that likely pays them as much or more than what they are making at Northwest.  And if Northwest loses enough key people, they will have to make concessions somehow.  Thus the same negotiations that are going on now will eventually happen.  They just will happen without this stupidity and Labor Union nonsense.