Re: \"Unions are Evil\"
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If unions were allowed to only represent employees of a single employer, instead of whole industries,
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The North American industrial relations model has developed where union locals represent workers at the plant level not industry wide, as in Europe, though there are exceptions.
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Now, a relatively few union executives control much more power than the former business owners ever did.
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You think that any union executive has the power that business owners do? At what level? Executives are elected. Owners aren't. I'd say union executives have far LESS power, legislated that way since the 60s, than they used to. But, sometimes, I wish we were back in the days when I could get some muscle to get even with the things that management does every day, heh.
You're right about there being a change in the balance in the employer/employee balance of power. If you think that unions have somehow made the tilt in favour of the worker, I'm flabbergasted.
In solidarity, Hamish.
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