Greedy Truckers?

I have just been on the MSN forums, something I do now and again just to remind me how ignorant the average person is.

The people thay are slagging off at the moment are the Shell truck drivers. Because they want a pay rise but already earn £32,000 a year people are saying they are greedy. But what about the company that is refusing to pay them, Shell.

If they were to give the truckers the pay rise they want it would cost them less than an hours profit! This company earns billions, and they earn it because people like the truck drivers do all the hard work.

If Shell were to not only give them more money but reduce their hours to 36 hours a week and employ more drivers to do the extra work and boosting the economy by creating employment then it would cost them two hours profit.

These huge conglomorates like Shell need to start showing some social responsibility and go back to full employment at a decent wage and putting something back into the societies that are giving them their huge profits. The affect on society would be huge and the impact on their profits minimal.

To acuse the truck drivers of being greedy when the company refusing to give them more spends millions a year on acountants to avoid paying taxes back into the country that gives them their profits is beyond belief. To acuse the truckers of being greedy when the company refusing to give them more money earns more per minute than a trucker earns in his lifetime is beyond belief.

Anyone acusing the truckers of being greedy is saying that Shell need the money more than they do and anybody who thinks that is a complete moron.