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Subject: Re: Legacy airlines should have smashed their unions long ago Posted on: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:52:39 +0000 (UTC)


"Dave Smith" wrote in message
news:417ABE5B.EA45749C@sympatico.ca...
> Bert Hyman wrote:
>
>> >> Unions are a scourge, a bane, and a plague.
>> >
>> > And look what they did to Enron.
>> > Oops. Sorry, that was crooked business practices.
>>
>> While I don't agree with the original poster, I have to ask you if you
>> think that unions aren't businesses, and aren't involved in practices
>> just
>> as crooked as anything Enron ever dreamed of.
>
> Do you mean to ask if they are all just as crooked as Enron? I suppose
> that
> there may be some that are a little crooked. All members of unions are
> eligible to run for executive positions, but too many are apathetic and
> they
> get stuck with executives who may pull shady deals. Ronald Reagan comes to
> mind, since he shafted the SAG when he was their president.
>
>

Hmm Jimmy Hoffa seems a rather better candidate for
a union leader with a shady history.

Keith