Newsgroups: ont.general
Path: utzoo!lsuc!maccs!riehm
From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Subject: Re: Union bashing
Message-ID: <2566C3EA.16178@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
References: <606@alias.UUCP> <1989Nov11.143948.15365@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <255DCAC0.7630@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1989Nov14.111855.27329@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <18175@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Distribution: ont
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 89 15:16:58 GMT

In article <18175@watdragon.waterloo.edu> mdhutton@violet.waterloo.edu (Mike Hutton) writes:
>Why is it that the hardest working people never seem to be on strike?
>The custodians here at Waterloo are a perfect example of that, and I'd
>be first in line to give them a pay raise (if I did have anything to 
>do with it).  The same unions (TTC, Post Office) are constantly walking
>out, while most of the people doing all the work end up getting 
>shafted by anti-union feelings and poverty wages.
>
This brings up a point which one never sees discussed: that the concept of 
unionism introduces a strong bias into the economic system, favouring those
like transportation workers and garbage collectors over others like custodians
at universities (not to mention professors!), for the simple reason that a
strike by the first mentioned groups creates almost immediate havoc in large
population areas.  We will not have to wait too many more years before such
workers will be among the best paid people in society.