The union did not give up on IBM, IBM gave up on America. The union is just not interested in protecting foreign workers rights, or at least knows that Chinese and Indian peasants do not have enough money for it to be worth their time taking some of it.
Try to organize a union in China and see what happens to you. You go to prison. It is a police state with unlimited surveillance powers where it is illegal to unionize. While your at it start a Falun Gong club.
Restricting workers rights to organize is a very communist thing to do:-)
Fortunately, nobody does that in the US. USSR — unlike China — was a completely different story. Union membership was mandatory. Their role was kinda-sorta like that of social services here, however. Not really, but that's the closest analogy I could find — they certainly weren't protecting workers' rights.
There was one union in Nazi Germany also, and I believe membership was mandatory. Its role was something like a small dog: look cute, and roll over whenever management makes a demand.
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I guess if you have IBM stock, time to sell (Score:0)
If their own union gave up on IBM, things must be really going downhill.
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The union did not give up on IBM, IBM gave up on America. The union is just not interested in protecting foreign workers rights, or at least knows that Chinese and Indian peasants do not have enough money for it to be worth their time taking some of it.
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Try to organize a union in China and see what happens to you. You go to prison. It is a police state with unlimited surveillance powers where it is illegal to unionize. While your at it start a Falun Gong club.
Re:I guess if you have IBM stock, time to sell (Score:2)
Restricting workers rights to organize is a very communist thing to do :-)
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Fortunately, nobody does that in the US. USSR — unlike China — was a completely different story. Union membership was mandatory. Their role was kinda-sorta like that of social services here, however. Not really, but that's the closest analogy I could find — they certainly weren't protecting workers' rights.
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There was one union in Nazi Germany also, and I believe membership was mandatory. Its role was something like a small dog: look cute, and roll over whenever management makes a demand.