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To: ajtj99 who wrote (95821)3/27/2009 4:08:02 PM
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In the past 40-years unions have helped sap productivity through unproductive work rules, worked as an adversary towards management, and drove companies to seek alternatives to union labor. Management is not always innocent either, but the unions are disruptive to the normal operation of the labor market, where wages are paid at the going market rate and people are free to choose where to work.<,

You are using selective history. Look at how workers were treated for 2,000 years before unions. There must be a counter balance to management or management will take advantage of workers.

Even state workers, policemen and firemen need unions to represent them.

Right now in my state the governor is being very hard on workers for no reason except she does not like any government or rules. The union is the only thing protecting the workers.

IN our police and fire departments two chiefs got in, that were of questionable sanity-lol, and once again it was the unions who protected the firemen and policemen.

Go ask policemen and firemen who belong to unions how much they help. I think you will find they help a lot.

You just saw what deregulation brought us in the banking industry. OSHA is necessary, but usually a pretty toothless counter balance.
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