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To: LindyBill who wrote (17383)	11/23/2003 10:14:23 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793759

No doubt your union experiences and mine have been shaped by different times. But your view is rather narrow, because I know a fair compensation in many industries is whatever the company can get away with. This generally means that if you want to avoid a union environment you pay more than union wages. In the fields I deal with, this often means you extract the best people from union jobs who are tired of the union environment and its limitations. You go to extremes again. My point was between a Wallmart salary of say $8 and a union salary say $14 for the same job. I am not sure who is going to support a family with 3 kids on either salary. But somewhere in between I would hope that a working person in the service industry would be able to pay for their own health care insurance. What you do not want to address is that if service industries do not provide minimal health care coverage, the US taxpayer does it through the emergency room.