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- From: galanter@nyu.edu (Philip Galanter)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.192322.12632@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 19:23:22 GMT
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- Since I started this thread as a response to other various posts, and
- since it has now run its length I would ask (again) that this discussion
- be taken elsewhere...e-mail or whatever..
-
- My basic point was that unions are, at most, one minority component in the
- economic challanges this country faces. Over the past years unions have
- lost power and the economy has only eroded further. It is not at all
- clear that regions of the country where unions are weak have a stronger
- economy than where they are strong...in fact I suspect the reverse is
- true. As long as the US has the largest exec/worker pay ratio in the
- west, I will find arguments that American workers are overpaid a bit hard
- to take.
-
- In article <Bt8Gnv.BIA@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> broehl@sunee.uwaterloo.ca
- (Bernie Roehl) writes:
- |In article <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu> galanter@nyu.edu
- (Philip Galanter) writes:
- |>Yes, unions are _sometimes_ corrupt, wasteful, and/or
- counter-productive.
- |>So are the government, banks, Fortune 500 companies, and computer
- industry
- |>standards committees.
- |
- |So you're defending union corruption on the basis that other people are
- |corrupt too?
- |
-
- Out of context it might seem that way...my point was that unions are held
- by some to a higher moral standard than they are willing to apply to their
- peers...
-
- |I wasn't at SIGGRAPH, but I know of companies that have refused to
- exhibit
- |at shows in Chicago because of the union situation there. They, too,
- used
- |the word "extortion".
- |
-
- And when politicians and corp. exec's are tough at the bargaining table
- they are admired as being strong leaders...
-
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