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Old June 26th, 2011, 22:02   #203
kalnaren
 
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Originally Posted by SHaKaL View Post
You understand that the private sector unions don't keep the population of a country in hostage? Just their employers... RIGHT?
CP isn't Government. It's a federal agency.. not the same thing.

Just trying to quell some of the mass amounts of anti-government rhetoric around here.

Like I said, I hate unions as much as the next guy... but seriously, if airline unions were to go on strike, for example (which they have in the past) it would hurt one hell of a lot more than CUPW.

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Originally Posted by xylum View Post
This is what I meant. Privatized unions do not affect an entire population. Not 100% sure on this but I would think that is why public unions seem to be entitled to whatever they want.
Fair enough.
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