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   Message 9,622 of 10,932   
   Chom Noamsky to TKeating   
   Re: Canadian Postal workers are "Playing   
   28 Jun 11 13:00:46   
   
   5a450d6a   
   XPost: bc.politics, can.politics, ont.politics   
   From: beaver@stew.tasty   
      
   On 6/28/2011 12:32 PM, TKeating wrote:   
   > The CUPW strike that disrupted vital postal delivery in Canada arises   
   > out of a misguided understanding of history and a sense of entitlement   
   > by overpaid, under worked organized labor. History shows that the   
   > concept of organized labor is going the way of the Dodo bird -   
   > extinction. Organized labor made sense at the time Henry Ford's   
   > automobile assembly line but a modern economy is no longer made up of   
   > a collection of organized workers in competition with an ownership   
   > class. In any area of a modern economy withdrawal of services,   
   > (postal, telephone, Internet, teaching, medical, police, management or   
   > banking) by strike action no longer harms the ownership class, it   
   > harms unorganized family units in the economy. Families never strike   
   > against each other.   
   >   
   > As modern economies evolve the existence of organized labor loses   
   > meaning. Membership in unions is decreasing as a percentage of the   
   > population. Modern and successful economies especially of the fastest   
   > growing economy of the world, modern Communist China have no unions.   
   > Under communism labor is organized in small units, work groups. Work   
   > group are more easily managed and the distinction between management   
   > is blurred. In Communist China capitalist production is encouraged but   
   > there is no "ownership class". The State is "owned" by the Communist   
   > Party of China. The costly overhead of democracy is avoided.   
   >   
   > When John A. MacDonald wanted to build a railroad to united Canada   
   > from East to West he could not rely on lazy white men or Aboriginal   
   > people to do the hazardous and hard labor. Instead he imported legions   
   > of men from China to work like slaves. Abraham Lincoln had recently   
   > freed the black slaves in the USA.   
   >   
   > The USA owes China two trillion dollars. The economy of China has the   
   > strength and endurance to bail out the bankrupt European Union. China   
   > is a technology leader in many areas.   
   >   
   > Canadian postal workers sense of job entitlement harms Canadian   
   > families who are not organized and who do not strike   
   >   
   > Like the father of Confederation Sir John A. MacDonald, our current   
   > leader Steve Harper should negotiate with China for cheap labor and   
   > high technology goods to run the postal system.   
   >   
   > After our postal system is integrated with that of China, the PM   
   > should turn his sights upon the telecommunications system and the TWU.   
   > Alexander Graham Bell invented intercommunications in Canada. Canada   
   > launched the first telecommunications satellite. However,   
   > telecommunications of all types cost more in Canada than in any other   
   > country. The OECD has launched a criminal investigation. Blame lies   
   > with the TWU (Telecommunications Workers Union of Canada). The height   
   > of hypocrisy telecommunications workers are not laborers they are   
   > technocrats, what right have they to unionize and deny service to   
   > unorganized Canadian families.   
   >   
   > The best solution for the PM to handle this crisis is to turn the   
   > China. Allow low cost nonunion communist workers to rebuild, operate,   
   > manage and service our telecommunications sector. Under Communist   
   > Chinese leadership unorganized Canadian families will enjoy free   
   > service as we are entitled.   
   >   
   > China is the greatest economy in the world.   
      
   Just point a gun at the backs of posties, like Pol Pot did in Cambodia.   
     Then they'll work for a bowl of rice a day.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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