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Old 12-03-2003, 06:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
thencrow
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Unions

I saw this on a website I frequant and thought it was a pretty interesting post about an exchange between Howard Dean and Chris Matthews

Quote:
DEAN: I hate right-to-work laws. And let me tell you why it’s OK to be forced to join a union. The union is out there negotiating for your wage increases. Why should you get a free ride? Why should you should be able to go to work for that company, get the same benefits as everybody else who paid their union dues and you paid nothing? That’s why I’m against right-to-work laws.

MATTHEWS: OK.

DEAN: But I do believe it’s important for states to be able to make their own laws.

MATTHEWS: You understand why a libertarian would disagree with you, right? A libertarian would think they had a right, he or she, to work where they can do the job.

DEAN: Yes, but why should they-but why should they get the benefits of everybody else who is paying dues and get a free ride?

MATTHEWS: Because it’s a free country.
If some one can get the same pay/benefits as some one who is in a union I say more power to them. I should not have to be in a union to work.
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