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Regolith

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Union fires employee for trying to...
« on: August 14, 2010, 08:58:03 AM »
...unionize.  ???

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/this_oughta_teach_him_rQamwIU0sNZxyrmyNBxz4L

A former employee of the United Federation of Teachers, a New York City-based teacher's union, claims that he was fired for trying to unionize the UFT's writers.

If true, this has to rank high as one of the most hypocritical (and ironical) events of the decade.
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Re: Union fires employee for trying to...
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2010, 09:16:33 AM »

Epic win!
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2010, 10:20:59 PM »
Wow.  Hypocrisy so thick you could cut it with a knife. 
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Re: Union fires employee for trying to...
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2010, 08:54:19 AM »
The laughter - it hurts so good!

But - unionize six guys?  Are the unions so specialized/selective that they could not just go over to a shop steward for one of the already-present unions and say "Where do we sign up?"

And only after 13 years, when he saw one of his fellow wordsmiths let go, did he consider the need for a union to protect his $100K ricebowl?  Were the previous 12 years, 11 months such a walk in the park that the notion did not come to him before now?

Irony?  Yes!  Hypocracy?  On both sides!  Sympathy?  None!!

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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2010, 09:36:12 AM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on August 15, 2010, 08:54:19 AM
Irony?  Yes!  Hypocracy?  On both sides!  Sympathy?  None!!

Yup.  I believe Nelson said it best:

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