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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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Why Unions Are DangerousUnions have their good qualities, but sometimes they're a bit ridiculous (don't get me started about the most powerful union in the world, the Major League Baseball Player's Union). For an example, a 600,000 member union in England may strike because one member of the union is being forced to tuck his shirt in. Full Story. 2 CommentsFrank said on 12/09/04 @ 10:13 AM:Jake, there's nowhere in the article that says the entire 600,000 members of the union are going out. Its equivalent to an article about a small local strike being a "SEIU" strike with the SEIU being mentioned as having 2 million members. As for the specifics, what is the history at the workplace? Is the woker an active unionist who was being harrassed for union activity? HAve there been on going issues around management's lack of response to health issues and this is a case that the union chose to highlight, for whatever reason? Yes, it sounds weird in the context of a 3 aragraph article published 3,000 miles away, but people tend not to go out on strike without a hell of a good reason. Jake said on 12/09/04 @ 10:17 AM: The article said "A major British union on Friday threatened a strike...". My mistake for assuming the entire union would strike -- I'm not (nor have I ever been) a union worker, so I don't know how the things work. Thanks for the clarification. Post a comment |
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