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On 3/1/2003 6:09:50 PM LavMan wrote:
yes pup, thank god you dont
Unions, the people that brought you the 40 hour work week
Unions, the people who brought safety to the work place
Unions, the people who got child labor laws enacted
Unions, the people who got health insurance
Unions, the people who got pensions
Unions, the people who got dignity in the workplace.
And numerous other things, time for you to read your history books. Do you think companies give workers those items cause they care?
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Thank god I don't what, Lav?
Unions DID have their purpose and bless the people who paid dearly at their inception and hayday. I've read history and know it well.
However, unions have outlived thier usefullness.....many of you make that point here over and over again, albiet unwittingly.
Pilots don't have a 40 hour work week, do they?
Unions did bring safety to the work place and they also drug in OSHA.
People today, most of them, are enlightened enough not to abuse children by making them work in sweatshops. Today it is a battle just to get them to clean their rooms.
Health insurance! Now here is where you get a vehement arguement from me! I pay $7000 per year for mine...that's right SEVEN THOUSAND. And that's for a crummy HMO. If unions never got that benie, it is my considered opinion that we'd all be better off. If you don't have to think about an expense, then you don't pay attention to it, do you? Somebody else pays for it so why should you care? You should care because if you had to ride herd over your own health care policy, the entire health care system would not have fallen into the abyss because we would not have let it!
You mention pensions. Ha! Look at the discussion on this thread today! I rest my case.
As far as dignity in the work place goes, if what is posted on this board is an indication of that, give me anarchy in the work place. All respect has gone out of society, as witnessed here.
UNIONS! ALPA isn't the only one whose time has come and gone!