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RE: 7 Reasons You Should Join a Union - 8/4/2012 8:30:42 PM

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But the right to collective bargaining is nonetheless worth the bullshit.

Sinergy, who was once a stalwart of our political threads (and whom I miss), used to say of unions, "United we bargain. Divided we beg." I don't know if that was his own coinage, but I've always rather liked it.

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RE: 7 Reasons You Should Join a Union - 8/4/2012 8:33:30 PM

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Have you ever seen a country with so many people fighting to go backwards?

I've been thinking a lot lately about how the 1912 election (Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson) turned on who could be most progressive, while now we seem to compete to see who can be most regressive.

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RE: 7 Reasons You Should Join a Union - 8/5/2012 1:23:14 PM

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Back 1884, Grover Cleveland's supporters said, "We love him for the enemies he has made."

Those words came to mind as I read this thread and thought of anti-union voices in the larger culture. Given some of the folks unions agitate, I'm guessing they've done some important work.

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