[nylug-talk] Thanks, I landed somewhere....

[Dr Eric Edward Moore]

alex at pilosoft.com writes:

> Union jobs are the best jobs, no doubt. The only jobs that remain union
> *today* are non-outsourcable. However, don't expect this to continue
> forever.  Hopefully, some smart President or Congress eventually realizes
> that unions are, at best, a form of monopoly, or at worst, an extension of 
> mafia, and will remove the obscene protections the labor unions have.

No, at best they're a way for labor to pool their resources to gain
greater bargaining power the way corporations allow capitalists to do
the same thing.  

When however, government, or even the public start buying into the
"big unions are good, big corporations are bad" line, things go to
hell rapidly.

-- 
Eric