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To: riversides who wrote (143418)	1/25/2009 11:57:14 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 314366

I will say this. Management that have unions richly deserve them. They do not understand how to treat workers and how to maintain labour satisfaction. Ford was a genius but an autocrat and tyrant. He singlehandedly strengthened unions by his rank tyranny in the workplace. I can sympathize with the unionist, in that being driven to neurotic distraction by people with speed up buttons on the line leads him to fight everything they do with every tool at his reach. Being powerless individually, all he can do is lean on community. Instead of taking advantage of this community and nurturing it to get agreement, the employers encouraged its adversarial growth by opposing it. They used every psychological mistake in the book to make their end smaller by fighting unions in egregious deceptive ways. Once they started fifth column deception against unions the organizations never did believe them when the pleaded poverty, which was often true! Unions in turn, a mass rabble with the collective intelligence of a flatworm were easily led by corrupt populists who were in the clutches of evil money grabbing criminal interests who sucked their pension and strike funds dry. Unions were an exact parallel of communist parties, herding their membership under Stalinist like administrations and robbing them blind while embezzling their funds peddling dope and buying retirement homes for criminals in Nevada. The rank and file was absolutely blind to any suggestion that they re-organize under more suitable union management. They still balk at government intervention into union activities because indexing and management of pension funds resulted in just as big losses as legislation allowed companies to take back pension fund contributions and go bankrupt with them down the road. Pension funds are often just as bankrupt at the end of the day under government control as they were under union theft. Inco as a case in point had never had a strike in 70 years. They had a generous strike fund paid into since day one by something like 20,000 employees. They finally had a strike. Their pittance strike wages from the strike fund ran out in about 3 months. Where was the money? If it had been legally invested in T Bills it would have grown to a sum of 4 billion dollars. It had about $16 million in it. The equivalent of $840,000,000 had been paid into it, not including interest. You know where the rest of it went. Organized crime. Yet workers are powerless to run, and administer their own unions just as they were powerless to negotiate reasonableness with brain dead management for decades. EC<:-}