XPost: bc.politics, can.politics, ont.politics   
   From: granfox@yahoo.com   
      
   Chom Noamsky wrote   
   >   
   > If you need a union to get better pay then you weren't worth much to   
   > start with.   
   >   
   >   
      
   It's easy to grasp the idea of unions because I have friends who have been   
   working   
   the same job since 1981.   Police officers and fire fighers are union members   
   too   
   and I'm proud to count many of them as friends.   In Ontario, if you are a fire   
   figher, you are subject to mandatory retirement at the age of 60.   The law for   
   everyone else says there is no limit.  That's because it's a job that takes the   
   health of the people who do it.   My company, because I'm not union, can   
   employ me   
   until I'm dead, if I convice them that I'm of use.   
      
   And when it comes to pensions?   Fuck!   Make your own.   
      
   That's all I've ever had.   And I'm like most Canadians.   
      
   Perhaps I should be like that waitress in Quebec who spent the election in   
   Vegas,   
   was elected to Parliament in a riding where she didn't speak the language, and   
   now   
   has a $160 K job and a pension in the future?   
      
   Naw.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)