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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I've always felt that the majority of the unions out there today are basically a bunch of extortionists. They most certainly served their purpose fifty years ago, and even today still do some good in certain cases. But from everything I've read in the news over the past five years, the majority of the unions are only making "good" actions when they're protecting individuals -- like the example of the woman who was injured on the job, then fired. But demanding exorbitant pay raises and all sorts of other stuff -- not to mention causing massive disruptions to commerce (like airlines or UPS or the NYC transit workers) that are rarely necessary. I'm not saying that the workers don't have a point -- they do, and I agree that everyone needs to have more recognition from the corporate elite, especially in the big businesses. But given the increasing interconnectivity of the world, there's the potential for so much more disruption that is not justified by the kind of grievances they're fighting to have addressed. Every weekday afternoon I happen to be driving home from Newark, I pass the Chrysler plant on S. College Avenue. At one of the main entrances, there's a small group always set up -- with a tarp tent and classic red signs -- always sitting around, "protesting." I have no idea what they're protesting because I always drive by too quick to look. I think they might be Teamsters, but I'm not certain. Seeing those people in the same place day in, day out for months on end makes me think of them much more as simple deadbeats, or a lame group rotating people around desperate for attention. After all our progress, is this what Western businesses (not just American) has come to? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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