[Magdalen] We told them so...

[Allan Carr]

Very early, I realized no corporation had any loyalty to its workers. I also realized, with a masters in analog design, that my future lay with digital signal processing and I took a whole series of courses in UCLA night school to re-tread myself.

After that I stayed current and was very good at my jobs, but whenever I got bored, I would flit off to someone else. I was able to keep this up until I was 70, quite happily.

I think I was a precursor for a lot of engineers and technical people, following on in these days, and I'm equally sure unions would have made my life, and lots of other such lives, impossible.

Just another point of view. 

Nevertheless, I'm quite sure I'm a liberal.

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 8:54 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I spent my entire nursing career working in non-union facilities in "right
> to work" (or as my late ex termed them, "right to slave" states). Only once
> did I ever work in a unionized facility, as a traveler, and I could see
> right away how it benefited the nurses.
> 
> Yes, there *is* the ANA. Don't even mention them to me. They are the voice
> of management and don't give a flying Wallenda about the nurse on the floor
> who is busting his or her butt taking care of the patients on a (usually)
> understaffed unit. In recent years there has arisen the National Nurses'
> Union (NNU) but they came along too late to be much help to me. I really
> heard very little from them until the whole Ebola business came along. They
> are much more oriented toward the actual caregiving nurse. If I were still
> working I would be a dues-paying member, even though Virginia is a RTW
> state, because the NNU has *my* interests at heart and isn't kissing up to
> management.
> 
> On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 3/29/2016 7:52:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com <javascript:;> writes:
>> 
>> Union  membership brings you someone to be with you  >>>>>>>
>> 
>> 
>> My union was, I guess, the AMA,. though there is the National  Association
>> of VA Physicians and Dentists.  I still belong to both groups.   Membership
>> in the AMA usually comes with a package of local and state medical  groups,
>> and locally that adds up to around $2,000.  Working for the VA,  however,
>> I was able to avoid the state and local groups, and membership is
>> $45/month.
>> With that AMA membership, though, comes the reception of a couple of
>> specialty journals.  The VA group is $90/year for retirees.  With
>> retirement
>> however, I have been reevaluating these memberships, and the logical
>> conclusion is that they need to be discontinued.  Old habits die  hard.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> David Strang.
>>