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MissBabydoll -> RE: Unionization Bill Threatened with Veto (2/15/2007 9:38:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
I did not dismiss it, but I would like to see a conclusion to a trial before I jump on some bandwagon that states "Archer proved his point!" I am sure there are greedy corrupt union people.. they are still a check and balance against greedy corrupt CEO types... we need that check and balance. You know a company is only responsible for their bottom line, ethics be damned.,... fuck everyone and everything that stands in the way of profits.. we need unions even if there are some corruption problems... you know, Ken Lay is only ONE example of proven greedy corrupt assholes running the economic show.. shall we compile union crooks versus Wall Street crooks? That would be fun fun fun!
Thank you. The point also needs to be made that corporations have vast wealth that unions do not approach by several entire orders of magnitude, because they are organizations of ***ordinary working people*** in a society in which the top 10% of the population controls 90% of the wealth, and the top 1% more than 50% of it--the most grotesquely unequal distribution of any developed nation. None of this 1% is composed of union leaders, nor any but the tiniest fraction of the top 10%.
Let the point be made also that the NLRB and the entire apparatus of labor law in this country is the most restrictive and union-hostile of any developed nation, with the possible exception of Airstrip One, aka Great Britain. Let the further point be made that the US now ranks well below the EU and Japan in median standard of living, and has the highest rates of malnutrition, poverty, and infant mortality in the developed world; the shortest amount of vacation time and parenting leave for workers; and on and on and on.
And then people grouse because unions, which are made up of human beings operating in an unbelievably corrupt decaying empire, sometimes resort to bad tactics to get workers to join. This is like all the conservatives who are against social welfare programs because they discourage the poor from initiative and self-reliance, while they themselves use their wealth to gain every possible advantaege for themselves and their children. If George W. Bush had been born into a working-class family, he would be stacking for Wal-Mart and drinking and tweaking himself into oblivion every night, and his daughters would be selling their asses on the corner.
I don't know that I can go on dealing with these boards. The politics of some of the people on here, especially some of the maledoms (why am I not surprised?) are making my head explode.
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