well yea and up here its led to higher costs of living, numerous strikes,
bankrupt companies and companies moving south for cheaper labor. I know i
worked for one in South Carolina now. So please dont tell me how great they
are today!!!!!!!!!!!!! they lost touch with what they were all about
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Heuman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: unions in Museums


> James,
>
> Since when has the focus of unions ever shifted away from fighting for
> workers' rights?  The ideals - and reality - of what my
> great-grandparents fought for during the 1920s and 1930s has not been
> lost: fair pay, fair hours, fair treatment for and of all workers.
>
> That few workers unionize today is indicative of workers' fears that
> they will lose their jobs if the union fails, and they are left in the
> spotlight as the "trouble-making union organizer."  It's also evident
> that Big Business learned that if they "give" some control to the
> employees (i.e., "employee-owned" corporations), the polarization of
> 'management versus workers' is minimized . . . thereby limiting the
> desire for unionization by linking workers' profits to business profits.
> If the workers go on strike and productivity drops, so too do
> stockholders' (including the worker-owners') profits.  It is
> capitalism's concession to a communist ideal which no cannot survive
> very well in a free market economy.
>
> Just my point of view . . .
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jay Heuman
> Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator
> Joslyn Art Museum
> 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, 68102
> 342-3300 (telephone)   342-2376 (fax)
>
> "You can't lock up art in a vault and keep it frozen for posterity. Then
> the artist is betrayed, history is betrayed."
> (Walter Persegati)
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of James Schulte
> > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:29 pm
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: unions in Museums
> >
> >
> > Do we really need unions. They were good at one time,
> > however now they have really lost their actually focus
>
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