"Capt. Mooron" wrote
Unions have had their day..... if I had a preference I would suggest the
staff establish a committee and hire a Legal Firm to negotiate wages and
benefits. No strikes.. just costly litigation which would prove incentive
to settlement. I would then as well have an accounting of where my monthly
"union dues" were being spent and wouldn't have some dork calling me
"Brother Mooron"....

Very good. And because they had that day, hired goons no longer show up and
split your head open with a baseball bat for wanting a fair share of the
profits of a company's efforts. Had you seen that, you might be glad to have
a brother close by. These heavy handed "negotiations" made bar room fights
look like a day at the beach.

It's all very well and good to espouse a philosophy that worked in the day
of the agrarian citizen, but the sheer number of people in the modern
workforce demands different rules. Hobbes would have agreed with me. People
are inherently greedy; generally speaking they are pricks. ASA provides all
the evidence one needs to believe that is true. Government and big business
are one and the same, and together they are still the Leviathan. Mutually
beneficial contracts are needed today more than ever. God bless a nation
where a guy like Scotty can make the offer of "take it or shove it." He can
do so only because others have paid the cost, and continue to pay the price,
for that privilege.
Scout