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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (53536)7/30/2002 9:33:42 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Although supporting unions is not necessarily the same as supporting workers, there are plenty of unions that do good work. You can't possibly have had experience with all unions, and even you have to admit the possibility that perhaps your position on unions is biased by your experience and your political beliefs. I know my position on unions is biased by at least those two thing. What you suggest, scrapping the system, is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Unions have done a lot of good for people with low level jobs who have had injuries, or harassment at work. I doubt you ran into many of those people. Intelligent educated people might be able to take care of their own issues by collectivising in some nebulous way, but people without education, and without options need advocates, and they need advocates that are readily available when they are faced with immediate hazards at work, or the threat of losing a job that may be the only think standing between them and homelessness.
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