Big Labor. It’s not even arguable.
In case you missed it, the teachers union is having their meeting at the Peppermill Hotel in Reno this weekend. Democrat presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards were supposed to speak there. The Peppermill Hotel, however, is a non-union hotel.
So word on the street is that the Culinary Union, which wants every hotel in Nevada to be a Culinary Union hotel, pitched a fit to the Clinton and Edwards campaigns about appearing in a non-union hotel. Naturally, the Clinton and Edwards campaigns pulled out, leaving the teachers union looking like absolute boobs, coming up with the lame-o excuse that their meeting agenda was just too full and they just couldn’t squeeze in two Democrat presidential candidates. And they did it with a straight face.
Live by the union, die by the union.
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
True enough, but isn’t the GOP essentially controlled by the interests of corporate America? Big oil, tobacco, etc.
So, which is worse: corporate America or organized labor? The answer really depends on your personal experience. Spend any time in management and you’ll think of organized labor as a bullying force that hinders your ability to run a business as you see fit.
Then again, if you spend your life in non-management positions (or if you simply disdain the way corporations chew up and spit out hard-working people) you’ll likely not look upon them favorably. You’d see a union as a way of leveling the playing field against management.
If you’re fortunate enough to have been in both positions (as I have), and to have seen the hypocrisy on both sides, you’d wish for a world where both unions are unnecessary and corporate America acts responsibly.
But that’s never going to happen, is it? We just keep digging in more firmly so that we’re all entrenched in these little “us vs. them” foxholes.
I see your point, Chuck. I just think it goes for both sides equally. A pox on both your homes, in other words.
JB,
I don’t see Chuck mentioning the GOP anywhere in the post. Am I wrong?
I agree with you on much of the GOP, but there is no need to point fingers elsewhere when it is completely unrelated to the post. This particular post is about Democrats.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
-Eric
Hey Eric,
Generally agreed and sorry if I went off-topic slightly. But my point was to shed light on how really both parties have disappointed us to date and that one isn’t necessarily better than the other.
You remember the old maxim about “when you point a finger you’re really pointing four others right back at yourself?” That’s the stage a lot of us disillusioned GOP’ers are going through right now; looking at how we’ve been a part of the problem for a while and how both parties have their interests that don’t really represent us in any substantial way.
I apologize if a little of that was bleeding through in my comment.
Take care.