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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Then by extension you're not fond of a five day work week, child labor laws, employer sponsored health insurance and workplace safety laws. The Triangle Shirtwaist factory did not sound like a fun place to work.
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Well if he is then by extension you must be fond of preventing people from working unless they kick back a big chunk of their salary to the mob, er I mean the
union, bribing politicians to award ridiculously generous terms on labor contracts that the taxpayer is forced to fund regardless of the local economic situation, promotions and retention based on seniority and not merit, lazy, sloppy, truculent workers, violence against non union workers and all the other negatives that unions bring to the workplace. If you want to expound on 100 year old positives then you also have to include the more modern negatives that go with it.
As for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory I do see your point, it sure doesn't sound like a place to work, on the other hand I understand that working at the Station Night Club was a hoot. Fire safety laws are always the result of an injury or tragedy forcing politicians to do something. They are not union creations.