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This thread is not about unions or labor movement in Canada. But either way, both are corrupt, have been corrupt, and will always be corrupt (as much as any "capitalist"). Canada has one of the most corrupt organized labor systems in the world! ;)

No wonder you are so damn worried about what is happening in another country.

Were you born stupid or do you just practice at being stupid?

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Were you born stupid or do you just practice at being stupid?

Not stupid enough to join a corrupt union in Canada or Wisconsin. I guess you need that kind of corrupt protection...I don't.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

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Not stupid enough to join a corrupt union in Canada or Wisconsin. I guess you need that kind of corrupt protection...I don't.

Nothing corrupt about the unions in Wisconsin or Canada. I am retired and living on my defined benefit pension plan.

What you do with your life is your business.

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Nothing corrupt about the unions in Wisconsin or Canada. I am retired and living on my defined benefit pension plan.

What you do with your life is your business.

Please stop conflating public unions with private unions. They're completely different entities.

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Nothing corrupt about the unions in Wisconsin or Canada. I am retired and living on my defined benefit pension plan.

Sure...it's only the "capitalists" that are corrupt. LOL! Many unions in Canada are corrupt but you just refuse to admit it.

What you do with your life is your business.

That's right...and I choose not to be dependent on very corrupt labor unions. No wonder you are all over this story like white on rice.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

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Please stop conflating public unions with private unions. They're completely different entities.

Sorry. The "divide and conquer" strategy is failing.

"I think it's fun watching the waldick get all excited/knickers in a knot over something." -scribblet
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He has really been trying to push that line though? Hasn't he? No one is buying it Shady.

Still ignoring reality huh? Which one of the differences between private unions and public unions do you disagree with?

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Sure...it's only the "capitalists" that are corrupt. LOL! Many unions in Canada are corrupt but you just refuse to admit it.

That's right...and I choose not to be dependent on very corrupt labor unions. No wonder you are all over this story like white on rice.

Wait a minute. You say many unions in canada are corrupt, right? Name them.

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Lets say for the purpose of debate we got rid of ALL unions and then companies would only be paying minimum wages and that would go for state and provincial unions too. The governments and the companies wouldn't pay for benefits either. So now you have people working for 10.25hrly with no benefits. and the same in the US depending on the states hourly wage. Don't you think the economies of these governments would nosedive? All those people with mortgages would have to sell their homes, no one could afford to shop cause they would have much money. No one would visit the dentist, the eye doctor or even the family doctor. Besides, that it would be the end to the middle-class as we know it. Whatever the unions get paid and the benefits they have is because the party they are talking to agreed to the terms. Most people who bash unions are usually the ones wanted to work for one but didn't.

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....All those people with mortgages would have to sell their homes, no one could afford to shop cause they would have much money. No one would visit the dentist, the eye doctor or even the family doctor. Besides, that it would be the end to the middle-class as we know it. Whatever the unions get paid and the benefits they have is because the party they are talking to agreed to the terms. Most people who bash unions are usually the ones wanted to work for one but didn't.

The mortgage companies are not unionized. The doctors and dentists are not unionized. Most of the "middle class" is also not unionized.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

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Sure...it's only the "capitalists" that are corrupt. LOL! Many unions in Canada are corrupt but you just refuse to admit it.

That's right...and I choose not to be dependent on very corrupt labor unions. No wonder you are all over this story like white on rice.

I notice you have failed to answer the question Topaz raised with you. The reason for that is obvious. In your zeal ro demonize the labour movement you have, once again, overstated your position and have no proof to support your false claim.

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Up to 100,000 protest Wisconsin law curbing unions

By James B. Kelleher

MADISON, Wis., March 12 (Reuters) - Up to 100,000 people protested at the Wisconsin state Capitol on Saturday against a new law curbing the union rights of public workers that is seen as one of the biggest challenges in decades facing U.S. organized labor.

Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain estimated the crowd at 85,000 to 100,000 people, which would top the size of protests in Madison during the Vietnam War.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/13/usa-wisconsin-idUSN1227540420110313

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Up to 100,000 protest Wisconsin law curbing unions

By James B. Kelleher

MADISON, Wis., March 12 (Reuters) - Up to 100,000 people protested at the Wisconsin state Capitol on Saturday against a new law curbing the union rights of public workers that is seen as one of the biggest challenges in decades facing U.S. organized labor.

Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain estimated the crowd at 85,000 to 100,000 people, which would top the size of protests in Madison during the Vietnam War.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/13/usa-wisconsin-idUSN1227540420110313

I wonder how many were from Canada?

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I want to be in the class that ensures the classless society remains classless.

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I notice you have failed to answer the question Topaz raised with you. The reason for that is obvious. In your zeal ro demonize the labour movement you have, once again, overstated your position and have no proof to support your false claim.

You notice nothing that is not provided for you from America. Even you rhetoric is imported. You bear false witness at every turn, preciously defending the corrupt oligarchies of labor unions. And now we know why.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

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You notice nothing that is not provided for you from America. Even you rhetoric is imported. You bear false witness at every turn, preciously defending the corrupt oligarchies of labor unions. And now we know why.

Other than unsubstantiated allegations you offer nothing of substance.

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The mortgage companies are not unionized. The doctors and dentists are not unionized. Most of the "middle class" is also not unionized.

Doctors and Dentists are Unionized or maybe you forget the Union strike in your own province of Sask lead by College of Physicians and Surgeons which the states also has.

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Doctors and Dentists are Unionized or maybe you forget the Union strike in your own province of Sask lead by College of Physicians and Surgeons which the states also has.

My doctor(s) and dentists are not unionized, ans would spit in disgust at the thought. What happens in Sask is your business, not mine.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

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My doctor(s) and dentists are not unionized, ans would spit in disgust at the thought. What happens in Sask is your business, not mine.

They are in the sense they belong to a body that holds the right to strike.

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I agree....wannabes from Canada should be able to protest in Wisconsin. Michael Ignatieff knows the way there.

We get more than enough of the Republican riff raff up here.

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