On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:05:00 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
.. .


My friend Bob must be a sick man. He's a union butcher. He works 10 hour
days because he loves dealing with the public at the store I shop in.
But,
he's probably the only union employee in the known universe who's like
that.
Right, Dave?


Use your head Doug. Union membership is MANDATORY in many businesses
(Gee, I wonder why?). Not all union members take advantage of the
system to slack off.

Good. I just wanted to be sure you understood that. I thought maybe you were
making another one of your exquisitely stupid absolute statements.

I've told you before, I don't deal in absolutes. Far too few of them
can be proven either one way or another.



But that does not negate the fact that a great
many do. Union rules are made to benefit those who don't aspire to be
the very best that they can be.

All union rules?

Who said anything about *all* rules? There you go again assuming an
absolute and then attributing the claim to me.


Do you know why they came to exist initially?

Sure, and most of those reasons are long gone.




In other words they are protectionist,
and foster an attitude of mediocrity.

All union rules are protectionist?

There you go again. Can't you contemplate an issue without going to
absolute extremes?


What about rules regarding safety and
working conditions?

What about them? They are no better than those mandated by OSHA.


Dave