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The Blog for Friday, July 29, 2005

"Well-Informed" Jerks

    The Tallahassee Democrat editorial board, no doubt fresh from a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, is happy to shill for the City's anti-worker crowd:
    Well-informed city [of Tallahassee] employees may find themselves quite reluctant to sign up for an outdated form of employee-employer relations that is, nationwide, struggling to retain its credibility and viability in the work force.
    "City workers".

    I see, the "well-informed" among us - you know ... the swells on the TD editorial board - know something that you and I don't know, that being: those icky union thugs and their yucky unions are "an outdated form of employee-employer relations".

    The editorial board would prefer that City workers get with the program (you know, become "informed") and refrain from participating in their work place (via their fundamental constitutional right to vote for and speak collectively with management). The "well-informed" should simply smile, tap dance and otherwise step and fetch it to the unilateral authority of City management.

    Editorials like this - and they're always the same - are stark reminders that newspapers are, in the end, part and parcel of the anti-union "business" community, and always take the position that employees shoud "trust" their bosses, and always argue against employees unionizing (well, except for the very occasional "limousine liberal" politically correct causes like, farmworkers or, decades ago, JP Stevens textile workers).

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