HI Mag,

    Unions have unfortunely gone a bit corrupt. I think they where very
necessary at one time but I an not convinced of their value now. They seem
to add to beauracy and wasting time. Ideally there would be an enitity that
had no stake in what was happening - Unions have become business in their
own right - so a self interest factor end up in their. On the other hand -
how much do I know - not being union?

                                                    Trisha


> I have been pro-union most of my life. For struggling farmworkers, for
> coal
> miners, wherever human beings have to struggle with exploitation. But
> recently, my view has been changed somewhat.  In my work as a commissioner
> and dealing with ways to get the sidewalks repaired quicker, it has been
> said
> that the unions got in the way of the city using parolees who were in
> training programs, because the work would not be done by union members.
> Argh...
>
> Mag
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