Forum Overview :: Beer, Curry and Vomit :: Re: Unions! (long!)

[quote name="Ray of Light"][quote name="Zseni"]My take on unions is that most unionized workers do jobs that are difficult or physically disagreeable - they are cops and grocery store clerks (in some states) and package car drivers and metal fabricators and steel plant workers - and every last god damned one of them does more work during a strike than the Security Compliance group at the major health insurance provider where my brother works. They do more work in a day than I have ever seen or heard of in any of the glossy cubicle farms to which both my parents have committed themselves. I see white collar America as at least 80% welfare state and maybe 14% productive, the other 6% being comped meals.[/quote] Offtopic! Cube farm dwellers achieve the de facto power of a union by filling jobs where performance is not easily measured. Individuals can and do produce in proportion to their own happiness. Ray![/quote]