You're entirely right... but that isn't really 'the right to strike' in my view.
As I see it: 'Company A' is prepared to pay 'X' dollars for 'Person A' to drive a bus. 'Person A' is not prepared to drive the bus for 'X' dollars... 'Person A' has every right to leave the bus driving biz and move along to doing whatever else it is he'd rather do. Hire 'Person B', who is prepared to do so, and have him drive the bus for 'X' dollars. *** This all assumes that 'Company A' follows reasonable government outlined standards for employment, such as safe working conditions, a minimum wage of 'whatever your minimum wage is', etc. *** Where people have a problem is in this scenario: 'Person A' thinks it is unfair that he hs to drive a bus for 'X' dollars. Knowing that buses are an essential service, 'Person A' just stops driving his bus. 'Person A' gets to bully 'Company A' into giving him more money to drive the bus because if 'Company A' fires him, there will be consequences. *** In modern times... 'right to strike' means the 'right to bully'. >I think right to strike is fundamental. > >A worker/employee transaction is nothing more than a basic supply/demand >relationship. If you don't want to pay X dollars for the good and/or >service, you don't get it. When there are a ton of workers competing for >the same job, wages go down. When there aren't any workers for a job, the >wages go up. The company will not pay you one red cent more than they think >you're worth. What if you know you're worth more? Either find a different >job, or force the company to pay you what you think you're worth. What if >you can't force them to pay you more? You leave. That's it. It's very >simple, no one entity controls all of the power, and disallowing the right >to strike gives all authority to the company. Think about Walmart >employees. Whether or not you think their jobs are menial, somebody needs >to do them, and that people must to be paid. If it's so easy to replace >these people, then they should be fired and replaced immediately. If not, >then you pay more. I think you get the picture here. > >- Matt > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jillian Koskie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:12 AM >Subject: Re: Whos been walking to work past 2 days? > > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Flash for programmers - Flash MX Pro http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=56 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:189009 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
