From: BrianNZ on
Vito wrote:
> Chuck Rhode wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:25:11 -0700, TOG(a)Toil wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's a tough old world out there. Companies have to face it.
>>> The best thing we can do for the American Worker is export unionism,
>>> which paradoxically has not gained a foothold in overseas in
>>> Socialist economies.
>>>
> Been saying that for some time.
> What's the difference between the say the US and Mexico?
>
>


The US has more Mexicans in it? :)
From: The Older Gentleman on
Vito <vito(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> >> Wrong. They might have given that as the reason, but it definitely
> >> wasn't.
>
> Ahhh, lemme see, you know what is wrong but not what is right? OK ... I
> guess.

Erm... well, whatever. I know, and lots of others know, precisely why
there was a glut of bikes then. And it wasn't to keep a load of japanese
working on the lines.


> Treat the men with the nets courtiously ... they're just doing their jobs.

I'll bear it in mind.

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From: The Older Gentleman on
BrianNZ <brian(a)itnz.co.nz> wrote:

> Vito wrote:
> > Chuck Rhode wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:25:11 -0700, TOG(a)Toil wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It's a tough old world out there. Companies have to face it.
> >>> The best thing we can do for the American Worker is export unionism,
> >>> which paradoxically has not gained a foothold in overseas in
> >>> Socialist economies.
> >>>
> > Been saying that for some time.
> > What's the difference between the say the US and Mexico?
> >
> >
>
>
> The US has more Mexicans in it? :)

LOL!


--
BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple
Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: Twibil on
On Jul 14, 1:55 pm, BrianNZ <br...(a)itnz.co.nz> wrote:
>
>
> > What's the difference between the US and Mexico?
>
> The US has more Mexicans in it?  :)

Not quite yet.

But they're working at it as best they can.
From: don (Calgary) on
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:27:40 -0500, Chuck Rhode
<CRhode(a)LacusVeris.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:25:11 -0700, TOG(a)Toil wrote:
>
>> It's a tough old world out there. Companies have to face it.
>
>The best thing we can do for the American Worker is export unionism,
>which paradoxically has not gained a foothold in overseas in Socialist
>economies.

Yet.

It will take decades but worker rights will spread to all
industrialized economies. Granted it will take decades more for them
to go the extremes sometimes seen in Canada and the US, but then maybe
the pendulum will swing back to reason over here.