Gunderson_Dane wrote: > Wouldn't you agree that in certain industries and within certain >timeframes Unions have value? > Yes, unions have value at times: when employers gain a local [*] monopoly lock on jobs in a certain class, and abuse that power. Teachers are effectively in this situation, because the State has an effective monopoly on education (not counting the economic fringe of private schools). The cure to that is to blow all the school boards away and completely replace them with competative voucher schools, but that is a separate rant :) Oddly, the teachers resist this de-monopolization of the school boards that employ them, for reasons that completely elude me. [*] "Local" is a critical qualifier, because workers are not as mobile as capital. > And I certainly don't think Sizemore is heading for sainthood but we >should all fear the tactics used to bring him ( and Washington's tax >activist ) down. > http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=49304 (the latest) > I don't buy it. Seizmore's signature collection machine is as crooked as the Sandy River. ObCRIME: ... uh, .... can't think of anything. I guess this really has become OT. I just like to rant about how much unions suck :) I'll stop now. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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