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Posted by David Sherman on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 18:07:38 :
In Reply to: Re: the snow ball is larger now posted by John R Dunn on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 16:48:04 :
I know you'll catch some flak for that, but I hear similar talk from the Lazy B (Boeing). These people with their cushy union jobs probably don't realize how arrogant they sound to not just non-union factory workers but to all of us self-employed people who don't get paid a dime until we find a customer and deliver what they want. There's no "they can't fire me -- I have seniority" for the self-employed, and there's no stealing from the tool crib when all your tools are already your own. I'm not anti-union, but they've gone way too far beyond securing a decent wage and safe working conditions. They've basically priced themselves out of business.
If you want to see what happens when you let the unions have all the power, look at Canada or France. They always have a strike going on, usually amongst their "public sector" workers, because so much of their social-ist economy is "public sector". Does anybody look at either of those countries as the industrial powerhouse of the world. Canada gets by because they have vast natural resources and a small population so they can export oil, lumber, gold, nickel, uranium, or just about any other mineral. France just dribbles along in a soci-alist quagmire that they seem to think is okay, but would drive us nuts. When's the last time you bought anything that was "made in France" besides wine and cheese?
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