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--- Indigo Nights <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Unions are like doctors, attorneys, supermarket
> clerks, curators, executive directors, development
> officers:  There are good, bad, and in-between in
> all
> classifications.
>
> To say all unions are bad is akin to saying all
> attorneys are ambulance chasers.  Simply not a
> truth.
> There is no absolute.
>
> SOME unions are highly effective.  SOME members
> within
> certain unions are highly effective.
>
> Some unions and/or their members have "sold" out to
> the corporation that pays their paycheck.  They have
> lost sight of the purpose for which they were
> originally formed.
>
> Some union negotiators lose their jobs lobbying on
> behalf of the employees they are there to serve.
>
> Some employees fail to perform effectively and leave
> their negotiators with nothing but a bag to hold
> that
> they cannot represent.
>
> There are no absolutes.
>
> Would it be effective to have an all-museum
> encompassing type of union?  Probably not.
>
> If there are classifications where the volume of
> those
> qualified to do the job is small and the demand
> great,
> a union may be highly effective.
>
> However, in a glutted job market, where the number
> of
> those wanting to work in a museum and are qualified
> is
> greater than the number of positions available by a
> substantive number, there may be no effectiveness to
> having a union.
>
> As the other gentleman already stated, companies
> have
> the right and/or ability to move to areas where the
> cost to produce would be less than in the current
> locale (subject only to any governmental
> restrictions
> to the contrary).
>
> Museums, on the other hand, may have less
> flexibility,
> depending upon the type of museum.  One cannot move
> George Washington's home, or Lincoln's Tomb, or
> Sutter's Fort.  The birthplace of Nixon cannot be
> relocated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- James Schulte <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Do we really need unions. They were good at one
> time
> > , however now they have
> > really lost their actually focus
>
>
> =====
> Indigo Nights
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