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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (3818)	1/30/2001 11:42:43 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

A while back some right-wing hack at Barron's also wrote an opinion piece slicing and dicing unions in every way possible for the woes at a particular company. I sent this stooge for big business an e-mail asking him whether he ever investigated the possibility that bad management, and not unions, caused the company's bottom line to head south. (Novel thought, isn't it? Blaming management.) I also made the point that unions don't exist in vacuums, that usually some action by management (i.e., making people work 80-hour weeks in unsafe conditions) triggers union organizing drives. A couple days later the bigshot writer for Barron's responds to me e-mail. He says, "Yeah, you may be right. Every company probably has the union it deserves." I laughed long and hard.