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"Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Mayor Bloomberg of NYC refuses to acknowledge the rights of the TWU
> workers.
>
> Given the drastic measures the TWU was forced to take to protect their
> rights as workers, the NYC Mayor gave a press conference today where he
> accused common rank-n-file workers of the TWU of being "against the
> working people", and made no mention of the aggregious violations that
> brought on the strike in the first place.
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Unions are screwing themselves. They almost put GM out of business, they did
put Delphi to bankruptcy. In this day and age, it's hard to justify the
actions of unions. Don't get me wrong, I am for worker protection. Let me
give you an example of what I mean. My mom is a head nurse at a nursing home
in Chicago. She has union nurses that can basically tell her to go to hell,
administer wrong medication, and miss many days. It is almost impossible to
do anything about her. A friend that works for EDS and works with GM says
workers say "fuck off" to management and the management just takes it. Union
protection. People take advantage.

So - I recognize the importance of unions until now, but it has gone too far
with no checks in place.