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   From: klunk@theothershoo.org   
      
   "Heidi Graw"  wrote in message   
   news:PaDkm.40525$Db2.23556@edtnps83...   
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   >>"Roy"  wrote in message   
   >>news:32f5116a-f214-4d64-9909-fb649d3f3d15@f37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...   
   >>>On Aug 24, 2:08 pm, A Thomas  wrote:   
   >>> What a great post. The Left is trash: generally hateful, spiteful and   
   >>> violent. When it isn't being any of those things, it's just...   
   >>> waiting.   
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   >>Roy wrote:   
   >>What a crock of shit..."generally hateful, spiteful and violent"...I   
   >>would guess that you have never read of or experienced the harsh   
   >>"whip" of capitalist reaction when workers want more wages or decent   
   >>working conditions. History has recorded how management has used   
   >>violence against their workers all over the world.   
   >   
   > Hi Roy,   
   > I'll share an experience that I had when I worked for a large   
   > unionized corporation.  The labour contract had expired and   
   > the union had organized a negotiations committee.  We   
   > wanted to negotiate.  Yet, in response to that, the corporation   
   > set up a "War Room."  The corporation chose to organize   
   > a war committee.  My jaw just about dropped to the floor   
   > when I read that sign on the dooe.   
   >   
   > A corporation waging war on its employees?  Wow!  That   
   > was definitely not a good sign.  We wanted to, in good   
   > faith, negotiate a new contract, while *they* chose to declare   
   > war in response.  What an outrageous mentality   
   > for a corporation to adopt!   
   >   
   > Ah well...it was a good learning opportunity.  They   
   > challenged us to go to war and we took up that challenge!   
   > At the end, the arbitrator gave us most of what we wanted   
   > and the corporation had to concede defeat, albeit in a   
   > rather unsportsmanlike manner.   
      
      
   the unfortunately worst consequence of such an "anti-cooperative" attitude   
   is that trust and loyalty and commitment and motivation and any of those   
   qualities which contribute toward high levels of productivity and efficiency   
   are now completely gone...   
      
      
      
   > Take care,   
   > Heidi   
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   > Authors worldwide   
   > have written of the unsafe and miserable conditions that many   
   > employers subjected their "loyal" workers to. Even Jack London wrote   
   > of these things although most people know of him from his other works.   
   > Google is your friend...use it to educate yourself.   
   > ==   
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