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Well having spent 14 years in a labor union. I do to some degree understand the "mind set". Alot of people would say that the unions have out lived there usefulness. But in some cases it's a the only way to get a fair shake from a greeedy employer. Before you come down too hard on the union
take a look at CEO pay and share holder profits. It's the guys in the trenches that made them rich.



Yep, gotta agree with that...look at freakin' Wally Mart. Now there's a story about getting rich on the backs of working folks...slave labour, both on this continent and abroad.

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On the otehr hand unions do protect dead beats and slackers. And can be pretty unreasonable about crap like hey I cant sweep the floor thats a maintanence job.And it's been my experience that the union leadership is more concerned aboutkeeping there own cushy jobs and looking after their buddys than anything else (kinda like congressmen).



Gotta agree with that, too...when I lived in the Yukon, they closed a tungsten mine down because of excessive costs...now the excessive costs weren't due to benefits and wages...it was lowly stuff like outright theft of materials...guys stealing gloves, tools, gas/oil, and anything that wasn't nailed down...and productivity issues, sick time off due to hangovers, etc...so everybody lost a real good job with good wages and good benefits because of stupidity.


BTW, hope you don't mind...I've borrowed you signature line for my "proverb of the day" here at work...people are pissin' themselves...(some just look at me kind of funny?

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