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Topic: Any Babbler Small Business Owners?
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lakeles
recent-rabble-rouser
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posted 21 March 2006 12:29 PM
I own an All Season Resort in NE Sask. 10 employees during summer. As a small business owner, want to know what really ticks me off: 1. Farm Income supplements. I can appreciate the farm industry, but my business is subject to the weather too. Nobody wants to help me, and hand me money cause it rained all last summer. 2. Wage Assistant Programs. Unless my business can offer a professional position, we don't qualify. What happened to just paying kids to work, so they can afford to go to school? 3. Unions. They had their time & place. That has long since passed & they should join Jimmy Hoffa. Sorry, I got on a roll, and this is your questions.
From: Beautiful Turtle Lake in the Saskatchewan Boreal Forest | Registered: Oct 2005
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unionist
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Babbler # 11323
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posted 21 March 2006 02:12 PM
quote: Originally posted by lakeles:
3. Unions. They had their time & place. That has long since passed & they should join Jimmy Hoffa.
Serious? You want us to join the Teamsters (current president: James Hoffa Jr.)? Thanks, but they're too tough for my taste. I'll stick with my own union. James P. Hoffa, International President, IBT
From: Vote QS! | Registered: Dec 2005
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Albireo
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Babbler # 3052
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posted 21 March 2006 05:29 PM
quote: Originally posted by lakeles: 3. Unions. They had their time & place. That has long since passed & they should join Jimmy Hoffa.
Interestingly, in countries like Canada that have unions, their time is long gone, people say. Why would we need unions when we have a 40-hour work week, weekends off, generally reasonable pay, a minimum wage (such as it is), and workplace safety standards? It doesn't occur to them that the very things that are offered up as proof that we don't need unions any more are the very same things that unions fought for and achieved, and which we have -- even in many non-union positions -- precisely because of unions. And the weaker unions become, the less secure these protections become for all of us.In many countries throughout the developing world the time for unions has not yet come. They don't have unions, or have powerless ones. And in many of these same countries, there are people working 6-7 day weeks, and 10-14 hour days. There are factories paying people a dollar a day to work in degrading and unsafe conditions. And a person who tries to organize a union to improve the situation can be beaten, raped or killed, and the government won't lift a finger to help. And there is no shortage of people like "lakeles" right now in places like that to tell people that it's neither the time nor the place for unions. [ 21 March 2006: Message edited by: Albireo ]
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