Although the suggestion of unionizing museum workers is a valid one, I have
a little bit of a problem with the concept:  many of us are public
employees; some are already represented by a union or employee's organ-
ization, and these organizations are pretty much like toothless old dogs.
While we can organize to a certain extent, we have no bargaining power
and no ability to strike.  Without that, the union or employee's organ-
ization is useless to us.

We are ripe to unionize.  Are any of you out there management?  What is
your response to the issue of low wages?

Claudia Nicholson
Curator of Collections
South Dakota State Historical Society, Pierre

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