I just read that exchange on canpolitik. I think you and I are more or less on the same page on this issue.
I think if a company tried its best to maintain a good relationship with its employees, it is often only because they fear a union being installed. In a way, that fear can be its own bargaining chip. Personally, I would rather just install a union anyway, but perhaps it amounts to the same thing in the end.
Still, Dofasco is able to favourably compete with Stelco because of the lower costs due to not having a union. I don't see why they both can't be unionized. Hell, I can't see why both can't be run by the workers themselves, but I guess I take this socialism thing a little further than most.
By the way, I'm getting a little wary of canpolitik these days. Ever since about, oh, late January or so, the place has been a little too right-wing for my tastes. The fact that the right-wing asshat above can openly advocate murdering innocent people (http://community.livejournal.com/canpolitik/426207.html?thread=12983263#t12983263) and nobody but me calls him on it is a sad testament to how far that community has fallen.
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Date: 2006-08-28 09:58 pm (UTC)I think if a company tried its best to maintain a good relationship with its employees, it is often only because they fear a union being installed. In a way, that fear can be its own bargaining chip. Personally, I would rather just install a union anyway, but perhaps it amounts to the same thing in the end.
Still, Dofasco is able to favourably compete with Stelco because of the lower costs due to not having a union. I don't see why they both can't be unionized. Hell, I can't see why both can't be run by the workers themselves, but I guess I take this socialism thing a little further than most.
By the way, I'm getting a little wary of