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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:09:54 EST
- From: John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <93024.170954SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: can.politics,soc.culture.canada
- Subject: Re: NDP "communism?" (was Re: A vote for Reform...)
- References: <1993Jan19.174121.4480@mdivax1.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan23.020040.6051@athena.mit.edu>, cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M
- Kozierok) says:
-
- >and didn't Comrade Rae just author legislation which would allow
- >for certification with only *40%* support? how is that justified
- >(assuming it is true, not 100% sure)?
-
- The 40% relates to people who have actually signed a union card.
- The legislation assumes that if 40% of the workers have actually
- joined the union, the rest will accept representation from it.
-
- You can argue that represents a naive view of group dynamics, but I
- don't consider it "vicious" in any sense of the word.
-
- >i forget all the other details of the NDP's vicious anti-business
- >labor laws. maybe it is the result of subconscious repression; they made
- >me almost literally ill when i first read about them. and then he wonders
- >why businesses are leaving the country. the man is the biggest
- >ass ever to hold office.
-
- I ask again, who's "business"? The most controversial feature of this
- law involved the prohibition on using scab labour for strike-breaking.
- That may cause a problem for senior commercial bureaucrats, but it
- won't lead to much trouble for the owners (mostly workers themselves),
- the line workers (who actually make the products), entrepreneurs, or
- customers.
-
- As its principal effect, this legislation should increase productivity
- by forcing the distribution of the power (and salary) in most enterprises
- down the "pyramid", away from the bureaucrats at the top, and towards
- the workers. And that, (as we see in the Japanese example) will likely
- result in a more productive enterprise.
-
-
- standard disclaimers apply ----------------------- John G. Spragge
-