If anyone doubts the value of unions protecting workers rights, they should try to watch the CBC's Fifth Estate documentary on 'Made in Bangladesh'
This talks about the working conditions leading up to the collapse of a factory killing over a thousand people... most making twenty five cents an hour producing cheap fashion clothing for North American market.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/

It's the 'race to the bottom' in pricing that concerns me not to mention the conditions our fellow human beings are forced to endure in order to eat.
Sure paints a bleak picture for our grandkids future.
Y'all can't live on borrowed money forever.

On 10/12/2013 7:16 AM, True North wrote:
It's the 'race to the bottom' in pricing that concerns me not to mention the conditions our fellow human beings are forced to endure in order to eat.
Sure paints a bleak picture for our grandkids future.
Y'all can't live on borrowed money forever.

Neither can youuns.

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On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

If anyone doubts the value of unions protecting workers rights, they should try to watch the CBC's Fifth Estate documentary on 'Made in Bangladesh'
This talks about the working conditions leading up to the collapse of a factory killing over a thousand people... most making twenty five cents an hour producing cheap fashion clothing for North American market.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/


What does this have to do with unions today, particularly in North
America?

A lot. If it weren't for unions, kids would be still working in unsafe
conditions for slave wages. Have you not read historical accounts of the
conditions that people had to work in in the factories of the northeast?

On 10/12/2013 11:00 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:09:48 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

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says...

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

If anyone doubts the value of unions protecting workers rights, they should try to watch the CBC's Fifth Estate documentary on 'Made in Bangladesh'
This talks about the working conditions leading up to the collapse of a factory killing over a thousand people... most making twenty five cents an hour producing cheap fashion clothing for North American market.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/


What does this have to do with unions today, particularly in North
America?

A lot. If it weren't for unions, kids would be still working in unsafe
conditions for slave wages. Have you not read historical accounts of the
conditions that people had to work in in the factories of the northeast?

That was before OSHA, labor laws and TV lawyers.

Kids should receive guidance from their parents.

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says...

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:09:48 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

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says...

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

If anyone doubts the value of unions protecting workers rights, they should try to watch the CBC's Fifth Estate documentary on 'Made in Bangladesh'
This talks about the working conditions leading up to the collapse of a factory killing over a thousand people... most making twenty five cents an hour producing cheap fashion clothing for North American market.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/


What does this have to do with unions today, particularly in North
America?

A lot. If it weren't for unions, kids would be still working in unsafe
conditions for slave wages. Have you not read historical accounts of the
conditions that people had to work in in the factories of the northeast?

That was before OSHA, labor laws and TV lawyers.

Which came about because of organized unions.

On 10/12/13 12:52 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
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says...

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:09:48 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

If anyone doubts the value of unions protecting workers rights, they should try to watch the CBC's Fifth Estate documentary on 'Made in Bangladesh'
This talks about the working conditions leading up to the collapse of a factory killing over a thousand people... most making twenty five cents an hour producing cheap fashion clothing for North American market.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/


What does this have to do with unions today, particularly in North
America?

A lot. If it weren't for unions, kids would be still working in unsafe
conditions for slave wages. Have you not read historical accounts of the
conditions that people had to work in in the factories of the northeast?

That was before OSHA, labor laws and TV lawyers.

Which came about because of organized unions.


The Republithugs would like nothing better than to get rid of OSHA,
labor laws, the minimum wage and everything else that prevents American
workers from being serfs.

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On 10/12/13 12:52 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:09:48 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

If anyone doubts the value of unions protecting workers rights, they should try to watch the CBC's Fifth Estate documentary on 'Made in Bangladesh'
This talks about the working conditions leading up to the collapse of a factory killing over a thousand people... most making twenty five cents an hour producing cheap fashion clothing for North American market.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/


What does this have to do with unions today, particularly in North
America?

A lot. If it weren't for unions, kids would be still working in unsafe
conditions for slave wages. Have you not read historical accounts of the
conditions that people had to work in in the factories of the northeast?

That was before OSHA, labor laws and TV lawyers.

Which came about because of organized unions.


The Republithugs would like nothing better than to get rid of OSHA,
labor laws, the minimum wage and everything else that prevents American
workers from being serfs.

Why do the Democrat/Progressive/liberals always need the helping hand of some authority or
overlord? Is independent thought that dangerous to their goals and objectives that they have
to babysit their members?

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says...

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:52:22 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:09:48 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

If anyone doubts the value of unions protecting workers rights, they should try to watch the CBC's Fifth Estate documentary on 'Made in Bangladesh'
This talks about the working conditions leading up to the collapse of a factory killing over a thousand people... most making twenty five cents an hour producing cheap fashion clothing for North American market.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/


What does this have to do with unions today, particularly in North
America?

A lot. If it weren't for unions, kids would be still working in unsafe
conditions for slave wages. Have you not read historical accounts of the
conditions that people had to work in in the factories of the northeast?

That was before OSHA, labor laws and TV lawyers.

Which came about because of organized unions.

Like most things, they ran out of things to make better so they
started making things worse and now they are done.

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?

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:21:45 -0400, wrote:

Imagine a McDonalds that only has a computer operator/cashier and a
part time person or two that load up the machines in the morning and
clean them at the end of the day.

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New York City had that many years ago. It was called the Automat and
it was a bit of a tourist attraction.

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/lunchhou...chhour/automat