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To: bentway who wrote (243762)	2/1/2014 10:53:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543615

"if we could just figure out a way to keep their leaders from becoming corrupt" "In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others." - Voltaire

To: bentway who wrote (243762)

2/2/2014 1:24:43 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 543615

Unions have had a bad rep for a long time. Remember Jimmy Hoffa? The only good thing about unions are they are the ONLY organization that represents working people. Now, if we could just figure out a way to keep their leaders from becoming corrupt..>>

The goal has to be single minded: "get the unions back". We can deal with the corruption along the way. And their corruption is no worse than the Wall street corruption. The union corruption is more crude, not worse. The Wall street folks use union workers to clean their toilets.

Union officials are no worse, they just don't wear suits.

Unions, with corruption, were still 100 times better than no unions.

Without unions the workers are there for the slaughter and boy have they been slaughtered. 65th in the world in income inequality.

That seems like a slaughter to me.