The unions seem to have outgrown their original purpose and utility... and now they exist to wield and buy power.
And an election system that allows for a seat to be bought this blatantly is broken.
And an election system that allows for a seat to be bought this blatantly is broken.
I respect the part unions played when they began, but now all they do is push people around and tell you if you don't support what they are doing you are against the workers. Not sure I'd like it if they were gone, but certainly the role they play now is beyond anything I think it should be.
Unions are one of they only ways I get political ever since the printers union at my mom's work started pushing them around. It's an employee owned company, so they decided they wanted to not get some benefits in exchange for the company staying in business. It was voted for by 97% of the employees, and then the union came in throwing its weight around telling them what kind of benefits they had to strike for or they would take the union "bug" that the company gets to print on the signs. That would have taken away almost all their political revenue, so they had to capitulate. Now the company is struggling to say afloat. Maybe the cuts wouldn't have helped enough anyway, but they would be closer to profitable than they are now.
Politics and the unions
- 01/08/2010 12:17:01 PM
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Yet another fine example of how unions are detrimental to the nation. *NM*
- 01/08/2010 02:14:54 PM
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Also of how the election system is dreadful, though. *NM*
- 01/08/2010 03:41:32 PM
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I agree with both of you.
- 01/08/2010 06:30:22 PM
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill...
- 01/08/2010 06:52:39 PM
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The man was a genius.
- 01/08/2010 06:56:54 PM
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The man was a ^%^%*^%#$$#$#**! ^%$#%$! $$#$#! ^%^%! ^%(*! &&&(&**&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 02/08/2010 06:40:32 AM
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No, he was. Classic case of good speech-making covering up decades of blunders & douchey policy *NM*
- 02/08/2010 10:34:33 PM
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This.
- 03/08/2010 08:23:35 AM
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You get in bed with cats (unions), you wake up with fleas. *NM*
- 01/08/2010 05:03:58 PM
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They're impossible to avoid here.
- 01/08/2010 06:35:37 PM
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Don't try to sully dogs with your so-called facts. The phrase works better with cats. 
- 01/08/2010 06:50:13 PM
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- 01/08/2010 06:50:13 PM
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That truly sucks, man, sorry.
- 02/08/2010 05:32:03 AM
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Thanks...
- 03/08/2010 05:02:19 AM
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You're welcome; expect an edit when I'm not too tired to be coherent.
- 03/08/2010 11:23:57 PM
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civil service unions are the worst
- 02/08/2010 05:58:13 PM
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hey now. northern california isn't that flaky
- 02/08/2010 09:36:57 PM
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I always considered the bay port of northern califonria
- 02/08/2010 10:19:17 PM
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well i only actually know my family up there 
- 02/08/2010 10:39:24 PM
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- 02/08/2010 10:39:24 PM
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I have extended family in Alturas and Grass Valley. It's beautiful up there.
- 05/08/2010 03:00:17 PM
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