Unions exist to protect the interests of workers. They are meant to check the abuses of employers.
Here is a great example heard on TODAY's Morning Edition: ================ Stressed-Out Game Designers Sue Software Maker ================ Those amazing video games that some people spend months playing take even longer to create. Now, overworked programmers have filed a lawsuit against their employers, citing extreme job stress and health problems. Laura Sydell reports. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4206253 Yo can also read the Amended Complaint Against Electronic Arts ... In a message dated 12/7/2004 12:11:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, Ben Rhoades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >At 11:48 AM 12/7/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>What is your biggest issue? Scab labor? > >Over-Unionization of the city/state which leads to everything being much >more unaffordable. It is possible to get a good wage and not be part of a >Union. Unions had their day (and a few actually do still serve a purpose) >but the vast majority of them seem to corrupt and gouge for unreasonable pay. > >For example, the PA tollbooth operators starting wage is $15.76 an hour and >they want more. These are people who could and should be replaced with >machines and workfare workers (parts of FL make people on welfare work for >it and one of the jobs they provide is min wage tollbooth >operators). http://www.layover.com/cgi-bin/portal/printnews.pl/7613.html >If they laid off all these people, they could afford to run septa and >probably have a surplus. > >-Ben > >---- >You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the >list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see ><http://www.purple.com/list.html>. > ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
