[TheForge] Re: OT: several questions and thoughts

[Demon Buddha]

schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Demon Buddha wrote:
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>>  I've yet to see a union accomplish anything useful to either their 
>> constituents or anyone other than themselves.
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> http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
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> In 2005, full-time wage and salary workers who were union members had
> median usual weekly earnings of $801, compared with a median of $622 for
> wage and salary workers who were not represented by unions.

	That doesn't address the value of the worker.  It only testifies to the 
efficacy of union extortion schemes.  If the workers were actually worth 
what the unions demand, nobody would been the union in the first place. 
  Unions survive because of the parasites who want something for 
nothing.  They can't stand the fact that there are people who a willing 
to do a job for $10 an hour that they want $25 for.  So they create a 
mob and strongarm the employer.  That is nothing more than legitimized 
extortion.  Wrapping it in noble sounding words such as "workers rights" 
and "job safety" doesn't change what it really is.

	-Andy