Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <25999616.7242@telly.on.ca>
Date: 28 Dec 89 04:27:01 GMT
References: <25900FAC.1DA4@telly.on.ca> <1989Dec21.051318.6564@utzoo.uucp> <697@alias.UUCP>
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In article <697@alias.UUCP> chk@alias.UUCP (C. Harald Koch) writes:

>"Don't work Sundays if you don't want to" is not a valid rebuttal. If Sunday
>shopping is legalized, people *WILL* be forced against their wills to work
>Sundays.

So, of course, the alternative is that other people *ARE* forced, against
their will, not to work or shop when they want to.

There are supermarkets which are open 24 hours per day. The world has not
come to an end. Why has there not been an outcry against coercing people
to work 3am?

The ONLY difference between forcing people to work 3am and forcing them
to work Sunday is that the latter is more popular, and of course, there's
the religious factor. Yet one is prohibited and one is wide open.

(A related aside: If retail workers are shit upon as much as we're led to
believe, why have attempts to unionize them been such dismal failures?
A strong retail workers union would be able to deal with this issue in a
way which labour laws certainly cannot.)
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