On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:29:37 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:

"flipper" wrote in message
.. .
Now you sound like a 'Republican' but liberals don't work that way.
Unions are 'good', period, regardless of how good anything else is and
they write laws to make it so, some Federal and some State.

Yeah, I certainly don't agree with that. Historically, many unions were
good... these days, it's very much a mixed bag, with plenty of unions doing
more to hurt the company they're with than helping their workers.

Like, for
example, 'closed shop' states where it's flat illegal to work in a
unionized professions unless you join the union, so it doesn't matter
one whit how good 'management' is.

If I ran such a company I'd be looking the for means to legally dissolve it on
a Friday & re-open it on a Monday as a new company... without a union. Anyone
who didn't want their old job back -- sans union -- could go and find another
one...

That's basically what happened with INCO in Huntington, WV, though it
took about a year for the facility to be sold and resurrect as
Specialty Metals, sans union and at 1/5 the hourly pay and with no
benefits ;-)


And our Union loving friends have proposed a law banning secret ballot
voting (precisely because of the 'problem' you describe) so union
thugs, who, as the saying goes, 'know where you live', can 'observe'
whether you vote the 'proper' way.

That's ridiculous.

---Joel


Except it's true... one of our queer Democrat Congressmen, Mitchell of
Arizona, is a co-sponsor of the bill. But there's a fair chance he'll
get bounced on his ass this election.

...Jim Thompson
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