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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (3867)1/30/2001 3:43:43 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
Power in the hands of workers is a recent phenomenon and imo highly beneficial. The less power is concentrated in the hands of a few, the better. While I realize there are power centers in unions, they do not alarm me.

It alarms the hell out of me. When I was 16, I worked in a casino restaurant. The food & beverage workers union showed up and started to organize. I had no desire to join the union, so I crossed the picket line. That "power in the hands of the workers" took the form of a group of about 8 of them attacking me in my car. I would never try to stop someone from organizing, but the fact that they would try to stop me from working through intimidation shows how alarming they can be.

What does alarm me are the horrible working conditions being shipped off shore. I would rather pay more and know that what I purchase was made by folks making a decent wage.

I never really understood this sentiment. I agree that the working conditions can be horrible, but the individuals are making the decision to work in these companies because it is better than starving. So if all join hands and boycott products that are made in what we interpret as horrible working conditions, we can force the companies to come back to the states and those people who were working in the horrible conditions are back out on the street.
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