Stewart Stremler said:
> begin quoting Robert Donovan as of Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:30:07PM
> -0700:
>> Stewart Stremler wrote:
> [snip]
>> >Once unions do their job and becomes sources of political power in
>> and
>> >of themselves, is it _possible_ to prevent 'em from being co-opted
>> by
>> >the politically-minded for their (the politically-minded) own ends?
>> >
>> I would like to think so, but I strongly suspect not.
>
> I think a good first step would be to disallow unions from being
> employers, as that's an obvious conflict of interest. Unions should be
> run by volunteers of those they represent, and all finances should be
> utterly transparent to all members.
>
> (Perhaps a second step would be to have unions automatically dissolve
> after a period of time. Thus, a union is a means to correct the
> abuses
> due to an inequity of power between management and labor. Once that's
> been corrected, and the correction is holding, then the union is no
> longer needed and ought to go away.)
I would agree as long as corporations had to also disolve after a
period of time. That was the original law for corporations, long
forgotten. They had a lifetime, just like people.
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