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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Enforced socialism?!?!?!?
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 10:21:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 10:21:14 1984
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Well, Tim, I don't think you're looking while you read.

I certainly don't mean that unions INTEND socialism, only that
the powers granted to labor unions in the US are so excessive that
they allow the union to control management in almost all cases.

While this is not of itself bad, many unions, union leaders, and union
members do not understand the problems and/or needs of the business that
they are controlling (indirectly, yes) well enough.   Asking for
a raise "because someone else got one" when the company doesn't
HAVE the money to provide the raise, and can't afford it without
going into their capital funds to provide it (look at steel, rubber,
auto <there's a few other problems there, many related to labor>, and
SOME mining industries for an example of what happens when the
inprovement capital is lost>, is merely foolish.  

(As for the auto industry, many of the problems there are involved with
labor difficulties.  I was born and raised near a huge GM plant,
and I have quite a bit of experience with the attitude that
many (not all) union members have toward their jobs.  This attitude
is the direct cause of much of the missassembly, etc, that is
commonly ascribed to US manufactured vehicles.  Give VW and Mazda a few
years.)


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