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On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:48:30 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:18:58 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:10:47 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

Things are worse now because we don't have kids 10 years old getting
hands severed, working 15 hour days in unsafe factories with no safety
equipment, if you get hurt you are just out of a job, bosses that beat
them to get more production, and on and on? Really?

Things are worse in union states because companies are moving to right
to work states ... and we don't have 10 year olds getting their hands
cut off, without the union.

Oh ****!!! You've GOT to be kidding me!!!! Of course you don't have kids
getting hands cut off, laws and work rules are in place because of the
unions of the past.

That is the past. What do we have them for now?

So we don't go back to slave labor.

How does that go?

Whoosh?

I totally understood your question, and answered.

... with a ridiculous statement.

What's ridiculous about that statement? Hell, I remember when I was a
kid, there was a wooden chair factory in the next town that would hire
just about anybody. They would have these 'meetings' whenever there was
talk of unions going about. Tell everyone how bad it would be. There
were gang drill presses, saws, etc. with guards taken off, safety
switches disabled, etc. I worked there one summer after I turned 16, ran
a gang drill, foreman would speed it up, just tell you to get used to
it, then come back awhile later, speed it up some more. There were many
people who worked there that had missing fingers and other various
injuries. There was a fire there and it injured several people, no fire
extinguishers around! It's now a union shop, and contrary to other's
FOXite views, they've actually grown, but now it's a safe, clean place
to work. I went in there with a friend who was now a supervisor, and
what a difference, safe machinery, not breathing wood dust and fumes,
and the steam room where they put trainloads of wood slats to bend
actually had an outer area so that workers there didn't have to work in
130 degree heat.