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To: GraceZ who wrote (19064)	12/20/2004 11:52:31 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Grace, It was really unions building up enough strength to where they could confront corporate thugs. They had some muscle for a couple of decades. Of course, Reagan and now Dumbya have killed the unions and the corporations are running roughshod over American workers, most of whom are too stupid to vote for their own welfare and too cowardly to join unions.

To: GraceZ who wrote (19064)	12/20/2004 5:53:57 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Generalizing from your "experience" with Teamsters to all unions is like me saying all employers are thugs. Some of 'em definitely are, which is why unions were born in the first place.

To: GraceZ who wrote (19064)	12/20/2004 10:01:32 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Re: labor unions have introduced an enormous amount of inefficiency into the economy as well as become largely a shake down mechanism for thugs. As opposed to, say, the private non-union medical "insurance" industry which has upwards of 30% administrative and overhead costs (aka fluff and featherbedding) and an inflation rate of 15% per annum? Or the largely non-union pharmaceutical companies which have the highest profits of any industry sector in the U.S. and also have product prices rising at 300% above the country's rate of inflation? If I want to see thugs and bullies, I look into the executive suites instead of union halls.