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On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 08:32:44 -0500, Alan wrote:

>On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 05:06:17 GMT, "zztop8970" > wrote:
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>>
>>"G*rd*n" > wrote in message
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>>> > ...
>>>
>>>
>>> :
>>> > Why would any company want their employees following organized crime
>>> > thugs?
>>> > ...
>>>
>>> One modest regular payment to the OCTs, and, voilà!
>>> Labor peace. Did you really need to ask?
>>
>>That's not an answer to the question he asked, but to a different
>>question - "what are the benefits of paying the union, once workers have
>>unionized".
>>But, thnaks for conceding that a union is nothing more than a "protection"
>>scam.
>>
>>
>I've been in a union for 25 years, and I know that, without it, my
>salary would have been lower, the working conditions worse (lots of
>uncompensated overtime, for example) and I would either be dead from
>the stress and/or unemployed by now!
>
>They aren't all bad, and the situations vary as to whether or not a
>union is needed and is effective. In my case it was both needed and
>effective.
>

Are you saying that youcan't get a better price for your labor on the
open market, and that you need a thug organization to keep your price
artificially high?

William R. James