Ode to Labor Day

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cards2468 wrote:I never thought to make the union connection... [expletive], maybe I'll go to the office anyway.
Really?

Well if you don't go to the office anyway, stay home and say thanks for the 5 day work week, overtime pay, medical coverage through your employer and other crap we take for granted now that were bought with the blood of those shiftless, commie, no-good union workers 100 years ago.

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cards2468 wrote:I never thought to make the union connection... [expletive], maybe I'll go to the office anyway.
Make sure to stay there twelve hours a day seven days a week. You can have Christmas off if you like.

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Arthur Dent wrote:
cards2468 wrote:I never thought to make the union connection... [expletive], maybe I'll go to the office anyway.
Make sure to stay there twelve hours a day seven days a week. You can have Christmas off if you like.
If you're not killed in a hotdog deboning machine accident first.

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Unions had a time and place. With that I'll go home for the weekend thankful that I didn't get attacked by a certain company's union workers that felt it was necessary to attack government employees showing up to their facility during a strike.

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cards2468 wrote:Unions had a time and place. With that I'll go home for the weekend thankful that I didn't get attacked by a certain company's union workers that felt it was necessary to attack government employees showing up to their facility during a strike.
Would you say that Capitalism had its time and place?

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lukethedrifter wrote:
cards2468 wrote:Unions had a time and place. With that I'll go home for the weekend thankful that I didn't get attacked by a certain company's union workers that felt it was necessary to attack government employees showing up to their facility during a strike.
Would you say that Capitalism had its time and place?
not sure if pure capitalism ever had a time or place, but a bastardized version works

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cards2468 wrote:
lukethedrifter wrote:
cards2468 wrote:Unions had a time and place. With that I'll go home for the weekend thankful that I didn't get attacked by a certain company's union workers that felt it was necessary to attack government employees showing up to their facility during a strike.
Would you say that Capitalism had its time and place?
not sure if pure capitalism ever had a time or place, but a bastardized version works
Okay. For some people it works a lot better than others. Why doesn't Labor get the same leeway? Are all Union members headbusters and kneecappers? Ever heard of Enron? Monsanto and Aniston, Ala? Etc.

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