About a month after the attacks the company began a series of meetings with us. These were small meetings with no more than twenty or so of us gathered at a time. The company had administrators or some group they hired to bring in a collection of charts and big pads of paper and place these on an easel. While pointing at the graphs and little pictures on these items, these folks explained to us that there was a structure to American business. There was the company, the stockholders and the workers. In one of these lessons, the triangle replaced the company with the government. They explained that the company was doing great financially and had to share this profit with the stockholders (or, in the one instance, generously give some to the government) but couldn’t share that prosperity with us. The fact the company and stockholders couldn’t share profit with us was explained to us very unclearly by these charts and pictures, but the upshot was that our contract couldn’t give us a raise or take care of our insurance. If we understood that we couldn’t get anything for our work, we would understand that another wildcat next year was pointless. The company, the stockholders and even the government could return nothing. To strike at all, to harm American business, was a form of terrorism since it wounded America. In fact, to cause problems on the job at all was aiding America’s enemies.