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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Sub-Minimum Wage Again - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 08:52:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 29 08:52:08 1984
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>/***** uokvax:net.politics / fisher!david /  5:58 pm  Aug 22, 1984 */
>How's that? Unions aren't allowed in Siberia. Does this means John
>holds the Soviet Union to be a example of how desirable a lack of
>unions is? I think the Soviet Union would quickly become a better
>place if free trade unions were allowed.

>					David Rubin	
>			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david
>/* ---------- */

>Sorry, but the SU does have a union. It's called the Communist Party. You
>don't have to be a member to work (but you do have to vote!), but you can't
>organize into another union (even if you're in another country).

>It's the kind of union that should make every union lovers heart warm. It
>runs the companies, so it sets wages, working hours, and benies. Of course,
>it also runs the country, but that's a detail. The Perfect Union.

>	<mike

This newgroup is being overrun by melodramatic analogy. Suggesting US
labor unions are akin to the Soviet Communist Party has as much merit
as a previous suggestion that the Republican Party bears substantial
resemblance to the Nazi Party. 

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david