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 12:36:00 GMT

Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

:On 2005-03-16, Rand Simberg <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote:
:> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:54:36 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Ami
:> Silberman" <silber@mitre.org> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
:> such a way as to indicate that:
:
:>>> : 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.
:>
:> What leverage is needed? If the employee doesn't get paid what was
:> stipulated at the time of hire, the employer is in breach of the
:> contract, and he can quit, just as he can be fired if he doesn't do
:> the job. That's why it's a mutually-agreed employment contract.
:
:The leverage to *get* an acceptable contract is what I suspect Ami is
:referring to;

And yet 87.5% of US workers seem to manage it without the 'benefit' of
union sponsorship. 

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