Re: WGA Strike 90%+ vote to strike

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:13:39 -0700, Jon Schild <jjs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



Lance Corporal "Hammer" Schultz wrote:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:19:40 -0400, Josh Hill wrote:


On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:12:51 -0500, "Lance Corporal \"Hammer\"
Schultz" <starfist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:07:21 -0000, Charles French wrote:


Joe, I'm sure I speak for everyone here, we're with you and all the
other writers in this.

No, you don't.

Well, then, count me as with the writers. From what I've seen, the
studios' proposal is a travesty.


Unions are an anachronism. They have long since ceased to serve the
purpose of preventing labor abuse. They now exist to perpetuate
themselves as institutions and nothing more. Without continually
bringing up "issues" over which to strike these institutions would be
(rightly) regarded as irrelevant.

I will agree with you in most cases. The ones my father and
father-in-law belonged to were certainly worthless. About the only ones
left that have any meaning are the ones like WGA, where the "employees"
are independent individuals with no power and the "employers" are very
powerful and have no ethics.

Being intimidated into joining a union just to work should bother
anyone who values individual liberties. The writer's guild may or may
not be as "bad" as the break-your-kneecaps labor unions, but the sin
of abdicating your individuality to a collective will is the same
nonetheless.

Unions like to claim that if they didn't exist, the poor working man
would get paid 50 cents per hour. In most cases that is nonsense. I
think that TV networks would actually try that if they could.

It was certainly true before there were unions: in some cases,
employees were literally worked to death. And non-union companies like
Wal-Mart pay their people miserable salaries. In some states, Wal-Mart
employees have signed up for Medicaid because they don't get medical
insurance.

--
Josh

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals.
We know now that it is bad economics." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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