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    DD> If you enjoy an annual vacation, a base 40 hour week, a   
    DD> less-than-seven-day work week, etc. then you owe the union   
    DD> movement a debt of gratitude even if you don't directly owe   
    DD> it any dues.   
      
    Which the right wing denies all the way.   
      
    JM>> I have no problem paying for my supper.   
      
    DD> Probably because a union some where/when negotiated a   
    DD> living wage.   
      
    A point I have made over and over.   
      
    DD>> The American middle class rose with the rise of unions ... and is   
    DD>> shrinking as the unions have less and less influence.   
      
    A point I recently made. Maybe you will have better luck getting   
    them to believe.   
      
    DD>> BTW - I do not think, nor claim, that unions are perfect - because it is   
    DD>> patently obvious, even to a lock-stepping wing-nut reactionary - they   
    DD>> are not.   
      
    Long ago I pointed out that, if business treated the workers   
    well unions wouldn't exist. Business don't so unions do.   
      
    DD>> But, they are better than going back to a master and serf economy ...   
    DD>> by   
      
    JM>> You talk of going back. Dumping the union is a step forward for the   
    JM>> individual.   
      
    DD> And there, my fine right-winger we have a basic disconnect.   
    DD> Keeping and strengthening the unions (yes, and getting them   
    DD> off their arses to do what their original purpose was) is   
    DD> the basis of an improving economy and a growing and healthy   
    DD> middle class.   
      
    Poverty is a growing problem in this country. Income inequality   
    is becoming set in stone. Without unions that will continue   
    until the revolution.   
      
    DD> Dumping the unions only works if you're already a member of   
    DD> the 1%. Are you?   
      
      
      
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