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Originally Posted by shareall,Jul 14 2006, 10:48 AM
I can't believe the unions (or anyone else for that matter) there haven't successfully advocated for a change in law! 
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Originally Posted by WestSideBilly,Jul 14 2006, 12:12 PM
The unions are very weak. Most union jobs have good vacation plans, anyway.
Here I think some unions have more power than others...such is the nature of the best I guess.
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Originally Posted by Mocky,Jul 14 2006, 12:26 PM
UAW weak? 
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Originally Posted by shareall,Jul 14 2006, 12:41 PM
I added the 'anyone else' part in as an afterthought - since I figured most unions would've had some sort of vacation deal going on.
Who would fight against mandatory vacation? Big businesses, which control the money flow in Washington and indirectly the votes as well.
We can't even get a bill to raise the minimum wage 10 cents. Welcome to Conservative-land.
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Originally Posted by WestSideBilly,Jul 14 2006, 12:46 PM
Who would fight for mandatory vacation? The people with no vacation tend to be the youngest, least educated, and poorest; as a group the least likely to vote as well.
sounds like me
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Originally Posted by WestSideBilly,Jul 14 2006, 08:43 AM
The UAW is concerned, at this juncture, about one thing: keeping the coffers full. The last thing the UAW is going to do is fight for benefits which help non-represented employees.
and 
Now, you're thinking to yourself, "Keerist, is one opinion 8D's and the other Coco's?"
No. . .
The union will fight for non-represented employees if there's something to be gained from it. Specifically, if there's something to be gained for the union-as-bureaucracy (read: lobster for union leaders). It could happen. . .
but yes, probably NOT going to happen anytime soon.
<--former union junkie, flunky, then got into "the inner sanctum" then got out.