Factory Jobs Disappear; Workers Lack Options [NYTimes]

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Ian Woollard
wrote:
> This is self regulating- I don't agree with mandatory unionisation,
> that's wrong I think- but I don't agree with mandatory non
unionisation
> either really (although my last job had that, but it didn't seem to
be
> an issue, since the employers were fairly OK),

On this we are in complete agreement. ABSOLUTELY unions should not be
restricted by law, either pro or con. Without the State artifically
incentivizing either one or the other, unions will spring up where
they ARE genuinely needed...and be scorned out of existence where
they're only in everybody's way.

> Where Unions really are detrimental to a business, the business
dies;
> and then the Union tends to as well. But if the company is that
weak
> anyway, then the management has messed up somewhere.

Precisely :)

Thanks for your support -- spike