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From: robertj@garfield.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Spot the difference
Message-ID: <245@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 07:45:12 EST
Article-I.D.: garfield.245
Posted: Mon Jan  6 07:45:12 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jan-86 09:42:30 EST
References: <130@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Sender: paulc@garfield.UUCP
Reply-To: robertj@garfield.UUCP (Robert Janes)
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Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's
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Keywords: company, union, inflammatory, capitalist
Summary: 

In article <130@ubc-cs.UUCP> andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>
>- A worker helps his company make profits.  If he really doesn't like the way
>  the company is using those profits he can and should quit his job.
>
>- A worker helps his union make profits.  If he really doesn't like the way
>  the union is using those profits he can and should quit his job.
>
>Happy new year
>--Jamie.

There are a number of differences which have nothing at all to with whether
or not I am a capitalist dog. The first of these is that unions do not
exist to make profits if this is what unions exist to do then I would 
suggest that we immediately disband them and work up some completely new
system for the protection of workers than the one we have now. Unions are
protective organizations and the disagreement currently in the court is
asking for an interpretation of what that means.

Secondly there exists a contractual relationship between a company and 
its workers which does not exist between a union and its membership.
Though collective bargaining (or whatever) an employee and an employer
come to some mutual agreement upon what each is worth to the other.
What then employee does with his own money after that is his own 
business, likewise for the company. I could go on.

A better analogy would be company is to shareholder as union is to worker.
Then the problems and differences become a bit clearer. 

					Cheers
					Robert Janes
					(Sometimes capitalist running dog)