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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Its certainly bullshit to suggest that only unions are naughty or use intimidation tactics in labor negotiations.
The history of employer/company abuses of workers and denial of basic collective bargaining rights is far greater.
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Oh, come on MAN! Can't you see it's all one sided. The world really is black and white- Good v. Evil et el. It us verses them... always... and forever. And we're always right, who ever 'we" are. We are the right ones and they are the wrong ones. Period. End of story.
In some odd twisted way I think both sides try to keep these thoughts going in some odd, twisted strategy to win battles and in the end hopefully the war. I think, at times, both sides loose sight of who the causalities are or they simply don't care. It's become all about winning. All about being "right." Or maybe it's like the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" it's just a self fueling never ending means to a means. No end, just means.
In all honesty I'm hopeful more now then before that there is a hint of a chance. Maybe it's a slim chance with a narrow window but it's seems like there's a perfect storm brewing that things could change for the better. But the first step has to be getting the country gets out of it's Us v. Them mindset. Least I think that's the first step. Maybe we're the drug addict that's hit rock bottom and there no where to turn but to each other to climb back out of the holes we've dug.
I see it going that way or each side's just going to go back to seeking bigger shovels.
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Originally Posted by tisonlyi
Some bosses/investors/criminals/bankers/politicians/unionised workers/human beings game the system to their own advantage. What time is the news?
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I missed this, classic.
In a way it reminds me of Clark Griswold's classic, yet longer rant, from the movie Christmas Vacation-
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Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, fore-fleshing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where's the Tylenol?
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