On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote:
> When you break down every little segment of the > law, as you did in response to the summary, you lose the fact that > the details will be interpreted within the context of the overall law > and the context in passing the law. So when you try and chip away at > an established right via death by a thousand cuts in an effort to make > it palatable to the public while crafting things in such a way that > the totality of the bill accomplishes your only hinted at > goals...that means something. Whether you like it or not. And not "means > something" in a PR or ethical way, but means something in how the law > is implemented and judicially interpreted. > My intent isn't to chip away at anyone's rights. I, personally, appreciate the right to negotiate my own salary and benefits when and if I get a job working for someone else. Really, among the people who I know, successful and not, I don't know many people who are in unions. The few limited experiences I have had with unions include the seeing parents of many of my friends in elementary school walk the picket lines for Eastern Airlines till they drove the company entirely out of business and lost their jobs. Other experiences are associated with education related unions - one third of graduates of the college I attended became teachers. I've only seen very negative, wasteful, ridiculous results from union activity. I admit I am biased by my personal experiences. I'm really just interested in understanding why anyone in their right mind would even want to be in one, and why certain people are FORCED to be in one if they work in a union company. I understand the very reasonable origins of unions, but their current incarnation and the rules around them are very confusing to me. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351825 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
