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To: epicure who wrote (172177)	9/17/2011 12:24:48 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 543060

Unions: All one has to do is read about the plight of the working person prior to the establishment of strong unions. From the early 1900's and before the worker was exploited in sweat shops and dangerous envirnments and life was generally hell for workers. Charles Dickens wrote about these things. As you well know. << think I hit "why union" in my last post. Crappy administrators are the biggest reason for "why union?" When my admin would not check the air quality in my room, I called my union. I like knowing the union is there- because if they weren't, we teachers would be squeezed as flat as little pancakes by our admin. Teachers already work an enormous amount of time "off the clock", but admin always wants more- the union is there to say "no", and I'm glad they are. Our contracts may not be fabulous (except in the minds of right wing nutcases), but they offer some protection. Without the unions to back up our contracts, they might as well not exist.