Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes when the workers get antsy you might as well quit if they're not going to trust your kind benevolence. If these sweet old store owners were so sweet they'd give there workers a contract. Is it more a shame these people felt so strongly about being in a union or more a shame these people felt so strongly that ludicrously their workers should only be represented by them their owners. I really think the thrill of magnanimous benevolence goes only so far. What does it take to make it crumble? A worker demanding his rights to some power. In the climate of those times any worker would be ashamed to be working without a contract and without a union and thank god for that and them. That's all we need is to go back to the humanitarian ideals of the owners who get hurt so deeply when their employees betray them by wanting a contract. Me i free lance but don't work without a contract. And I'm glad i have the power to insist on that. My grandfather i get benevolence from the people who hire me can skip it. My job is to do what i put down I'm going to do and their job is to pay me. Preferably in cold unmarked unsequenced cash. No wait.. skip that part. Why did those guys close down their businesses? Just exactly why? A kind of sad ego? Peer group pressure from the other "owners"? That's entirely possible. I'll err on the side of the workers. There are more of them then owners. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html