-=> Dr. What wrote to digimaus <=-


 DW> I've spent decades working with unions (Teacher's unions, UAW, etc.)
 DW> Their main purpose, in my experience, is to protect the incompetent and
 DW> lazy.

I was a member of the United Food & Commercial Worker's Union (Local 555
in Portland, Oregon) when I was 16 in 1989 at a unionized supermarket in
Scappoose, Oregon (about 30 miles NE of Portland).  I was forced to pay
$40 a month--a lot when you're making $4.75 an hour--to the union just
to keep my job.  I quit that job in a few months.

When I was working at the Mountain Home (TN) VA Hospital, the American
Federation of Government Employees union was pestering me to join them.
Besides offring additional insurance, they held no advantages for me
over the government benefits  already had...and why there is a union for
government employees is beyond me; I never had issues with the pay or
benefits I was receiving.  Thankfully, union mmbership was optional.

Don't get me wrong, unions had their place and time.  But what
advantages they offer now are seeminingly miniscule.

There's even an IT union.  I laughed when I heard that.

-- Sean

... Confucius say: "It's stuffy inside fortune cookie."
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