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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (367)	9/1/2011 2:43:45 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) of 85487

"Possibly I would say, "this isn't worth it for the money, so i am going to either find another job or I am going to demand a raise"" Really? You're an unskilled worker on the factory line with unemployment at about 15% and people lined up looking for work and you're going to "demand" a raise? Or, line up with hundreds of thousands of applicants eager to take a paying job, any job, that likely offers no more than the one you just quit? That's the world view that made me suggest that you must live in a very different world than the world that many working American men and women have to survive in. "If I owned a business and was being forced to let a union in, I'd shut the business down>" Even if the business would remain profitable and the only extra burden would be to bargain in good faith on wages, benefits and working conditions along with basic worker protections like protection from arbitrary terminations? Charged rhetoric aside, I'd think that the majority of companies would not abandon a profitable business based on anti-union animus. Ed

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