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- From: galanter@nyu.edu (Philip Galanter)
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- Subject: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 01:55:00 GMT
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- Both at SigGraph and now here I have heard/read a number of anti-union
- slams. Yes, Chicago is a union town...it is also a town where working
- class people have a chance to earn a decent living and maybe, if they are
- careful and frugal, buy a home for their family someday.
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- Its time to stop laying the blame for a poor US economy at the feet of the
- people who have the least power to influence the direction their given
- industry takes, and are the first to suffer when things go bad. After 12
- years of Reagan/Bush/"right-to-work" union busting the economy is in worse
- shape than ever, save for the few at the very top who enjoy the largest
- gap between the executive and working class in the West.
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- Yes, unions are _sometimes_ corrupt, wasteful, and/or counter-productive.
- So are the government, banks, Fortune 500 companies, and computer industry
- standards committees. Please allow working class people the only leverage
- over their economic future that they have. At the end of the day they are
- just like you, tired and a little bit older...
-
- Phil
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