Letter to the Editor: Sick of collective bargaining bashing

Mr. Frantz, I read your article and I became really angry. You will find a way to bash collective bargaining and unions no matter what the circumstance.

How ridiculous you are to put the blame on the regular officials, when it was the billionaire owners who are so greedy they would lock out, refuse to talk or bargain with the "part-time" officals that cost them pennies in the scheme of things. Even you made the statement they could pay them many times more than what they were offering without a thought. You asked why should they pay $150,000 and a pension for part-time work, because these men must put their bodies on the line every Sunday. Because they must prepare, know the rules and be able to control the game. Did you not see the mess it was with men out there who were not prepared and who didn't know how to control the game.

Why are you not asking why these billionaire owners make the cities and taxpayers pay for the stadiums they are using to make their billions. Do you understand that the Cleveland School System would not have had to lay off 530 teachers if our city had the billion or so dollars spent on the Browns Stadium, Progressive Field, etc.

I have listened to your radio show and you bash teachers, policemen, firemen and anyone who belongs to a union. You sit on your dead butt everyday with your tongue flapping, doing nothing to make this country a better place to live, or more, a civil place to live.

I am so sick of all of you who benefitted from the blood and sweat of those who worked to get a union, that gave you a 40-hour work week, time-and-a-half for overtime, got kids out of the factories, made our workplaces safer to work in. You may be very smart and make a big pay check for your blather and propaganda, but what have you done for this country?

Fear, hatred, half-truths -- that's your agenda. Bring down the working men and women, what does it do for you? I am sure it makes you feel powerful. But there are many of us out here, that see you as what you are, no big deal!!!

Jacqueline Bell