Hey guys,
Don't you foreigners have your own lists for talking politics? ;-)
Sometimes from Estonia, sometimes from Australia, rarely interested in
America,
Lee (Bjork) Borkman
http://bjork.net ColdFusion Tags by Bjork
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From: Peter Theobald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 12:48 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT BUT CRITICALLY IMPORTANT...
*OPINIONS FOLLOW* YOU MAY DISAGREE* THAT IS YOUR PEROGATIVE*
Traditionally there is not an IT union for several reasons:
1) Unions began when exploited workers attempted to organize to fight the
their exploitation. IT workers have never been exploited, as a matter of
fact we enjoy some of the highest wages and most flexible working conditions
in any industry. There is currently much more demand for skilled IT workers
than there is supply of those workers. IT workers are a class that hardly
need the protection of an organization.
2) IT workers have always had a grass-roots "meritocracy" philosophy. In
other words we have felt that the best opportunities should go to the most
skilled workers regardless of other factors such as 'tenure', 'nationality',
'race', 'age', 'sex', or 'membership in a union'. Perhaps this is an
outgrowth of the nature of what we do. We spend all our time looking for the
most efficient solutions to problems, so perhaps we naturally feel that
"jobs" should also be granted to the most efficient worker for a given task,
and not to the one who has paid his or her union dues the longest.
At 06:28 PM 10/3/00 -0400, Jon Tillman wrote:
>While I may not take such a hard-line position about this issue, it does
raise
>a question to me:
>Is there an IT union? if so, does anyone have contact info?
>if not, why not?
>
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