Re: WGA Strike 90%+ vote to strike



Josh Hill wrote:
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.

I keep hearing this, but people I know personally who work at Wal-Mart are all happy with it. They report NONE of the supposed abuses that activists are always talking about. I think unions are just spreading lies about how horrible it is to work without having union dues forced out of your pocket. They see how much power they could get by bringing down a company that large, and they want it.


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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei


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