Unions are nothing like recruiters. In fact, recruiters are often in place to bring on candidates that eventually get hired and then join a union.
Unions have many purposes, negotiating benefit packages is but one of them. Protection of the workforce (defense of the common welfare) is a major role of a union, for instance. In many states (most?) people may be fired for any reason or no reason at all unless it is proven to be one of a small number of illegal reasons (race, creed, gender, etc). In union shops, however, that is rarely true. There are arbitration rules, cause must be given...you know, due process. And in what way do you think that a traditional government is not trying to negotiate an attractive contract? We historically have called it a social contract and it represents an evolviing balance between a variety of sources attempting to produce a set of laws (i.e., a contract) that produces the greatest general welfare. I think you are too keyed in on the hiring/recruiting aspect. I'm asking people to extrapolate out into the general notion of self governance in groups and how that is evolving. Think about the phrase "A more perfect union". What does it mean today? Judah On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Judah wrote: >> Thoughts? >> > > You're way WAY off track. > > Unions are private regulated organizations whose purpose is to > negotiate attractive benefits packages with employers. > > Scott has pointed out the one critical difference: a company isn't not > completely free to select a union. > > But, really, a company is also not free to select to select my recruiter. > > But where Scott is right is the "impacted" nature of the negotiator: > once a company's employees agree to unionize, that's the recruiter for > the company * for job(s) X* even if the company doesn't agree. > > However I would still argue that this is simply a set of employees > selecting the same recruiter. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293104 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
