Re: "Nazis Run Our Space Program" -- Peace Activist Bruce Gag-Me

From: Fred J. McCall (fmccall_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:26:45 GMT

"Ami Silberman" <silber@mitre.org> wrote:

:
:"Eric Chomko" <echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu> wrote in message
:news:d19vrq$kj4$2@news.ums.edu...
:> Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@org.trash) wrote:
:> : On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:04:39 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
:> : echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
:> : monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
:
:> : >
:> : >So, you believe that an employer should have the right to pay an
:> employee
:> : >anything he wants to?
:>
:> : Of course, contingent on a mutually-agreed employment contract.
:
:Which is why we need labor unions, since the leverage that someone filling a
:totally fungible low-level postion has is zip compared to the leverage of a
:multi-million dollar company.

Except labor unions these days generally just add another set of
bosses sucking up on the workers' income, which is why the general
trend is declining union membership.

Workers make much more money by pricing themselves and their employer
out of the market so that no one gets anything. 

-- 
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
 territory."
                                      --G. Behn

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