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      <![CDATA[What we fail to understand is basic right. We sell our services for a price which is mostly dictated to us by the "employer".
        
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      <![CDATA[Charles i'm glad that you are employed by someone who is willing to talk to you even if it is through the hierarchy. You have a good job probably doing a specific skill where they find value in your health and well being.
        
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      <![CDATA[When CEOs made 20 to 30 times the average wage, America was competitive in manufacturing. Now that gap is 300-400 times, and workers wages have roughly the same buying power they did in the 1950s.<br>
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  And the loss in union membership is clearly linked to unions gaining power and embodying Lord Acton's axiom by becoming corrupt.
        
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      <![CDATA[Have there been problems with unions in the recent past? Yes.
        
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      <![CDATA[Chain those babies to the looms boys! There's money to be made.
        
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      <![CDATA[rambler, <br>
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That is not exactly true. In my company, the individual does not have be 'absorbed' into the whole.
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:59:30 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[mad_merc,<br>
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 The problem facing all levels of government in New York is simple: the pension funds are not being funded adequately to enable retirees to receive what they have been promised. The retirees were overwhelmingly members of various trade unions.
        
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      <![CDATA[How else is a worker's voice heard? Collective bargaining.
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:48:09 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[While Charles is completely wrong as usual, the unions do have a bit of a credibility issue. Rightly or wrongly, the image of unions operating in the same manner as organized crime families is the prevalent notion among most Americans.
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:00:47 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[hmmm]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Ah, the plantation owners during slavery were employers. And what about the coal mine owners - some of which are still the same today.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jeff,  some corporations may be greedy, but that still does not allow Constitutional usurpation of employer's rights of association and jurisdiction. The unions do not own a corporation or a company.
        
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      <![CDATA[Corporations are thug-cartels that force lower wages on the employee. Union-busting is a violation of the right of association.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ahh, just got through watching The Molly Maguires last night....those benevolent coal mine owners sure were nice to their employees.
        
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      <![CDATA[Unions are thug-cartels that force higher wages on the employer. It is a violation of the right of association and private property.
        
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