Ilana Halupovich wrote: > > <G> I think the biggest lie that I was taught was about > unions fighting for the workers against evil owners. > May be it's only in Israel - here union is > one of the richest owners and it's fights are for > raising managers' salaries. > Hmmm... Unions are difficult to understand... Because the only thing that they never do is fighting for the workers :-)
Here in Brazil we have to renegociate each year the income and benefits for the next year. When my company was State-owned [and the inflation rate was 30% per month], the Union liked to add to their requests lots of things that had *no* relation to our job, like "the g*vernment should distribute land to the landless people", etc. But they did include clauses to the benefit of the workers. But not the company was sold to one of the three Borg Capitalist Corporations that Rule the World, and the Union is pretty useless. > probably most things that you think was propaganda > about SU are right. It's amazing how much crap you can > make people believe. :-( > Let me see... It was said that medicine in the SU was so backwards that it still used leeches... But I see now in the Discovery Channel that leeches *are* used in implants of amputed members. It was said that the markets had nothing useful to be sold, and that you had to wait hours in a line before buying any food. It was said that people had no right to move from town to town without showing lots of documents. It was said that religion had to be practiced in clandestine ways. Alberto Monteiro
