Will Habitats be bastions of Union strengths?

> It seems to me that the work of the habitats would be
> strictly white collar so both the idea of unions and
> company towns seems a bit off the mark.
>
> The biggest professions would probably follow the
> pattern already in place in the US. Here is the big
> ones I can think of.

I'n not so sure that your examples actually support your case.

1) Government = non-productive
2) Medical = support
3) Construction = non-exportable
4) Transportation = support
5) Education/daycare =support
6) Art, music, dining, recreation = entertainment

Government workers are heavily unionized. medical support workers
and hospital employess are too. Doctors may go that way in the HMO
model. Construction is heavily unionized when not faced with non--
union competition. It's basically grunt work, so will we be
importing workers at great cost to do grunt work?

As for transportation, ever hear of the Teamsters? Education is
usually represented by the the teachers unions in every district
I've ever heard of. As for the leisure industry, dishwashers,
waitresses, aerobics instructors, small bands of musicians, and
artists aren't really big income producers.

> Robotic manufacturing has reached a level of maturity
> that will make most of the traditional blue collar
> jobs obsolete.

Doesn't this kind of beg the question of why we'd even need the
white collar workers on-site. Couldn't they do their design and
oversite from earth and let the robots build them things. If so,
then why have a Habitat?

TangoMan