> Dana wrote:
> light rail? maybe screen actors guild? I actually think guild is a
> better model...
>
How so? My contention would that modern unions are no longer needed because:
(1.) There exists a mostly fair and free labor market in the US:
- equal access to education and training
- equal access to information: job listings, career advice, etc.
- equal access to cheap travel
- a low unemployment rate
(2.) Unions encourage the ignorance of their members. Most union
members don't know/don't care about their contracts and implicitly
trust their negotiators. They take a that's-what-I-pay-them-for
attitude. The unions encourage this through marketing
(3.) Modern unions are, by design, corrupt organizations run by those
who want power more than worker rights. Look to the places where
unions are trying to expand: Target, Walmart, IT, etc. It's not the
*workers* asking for unions, it's the unions!
(4.) Worker's rights are easily and best handled by a massive
oversupply of free lawyers as well as an oversupply of Press. Class
action lawsuits have solved more worker's rights issues in the 21st
century than unions and, many times, they're initiated by the Press.
So, show me a union with leaders who get paid union wages that
encourages education and can enforce worker's rights better than
contingency lawyers.
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