On 20 Nov, 15:53, wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:33:59 -0800 (PST)

MIG wrote:
Why? Companies generate wealth, unions just generate trouble and have had
their day and should be dispensed with. They sole purpose seems to be to
extort employers.

Only in the sense that the sole purpose of private companies is to
exploit slave labour.

I think you'll find that it's workers who generate wealth.

Whats this, Marxism For Dummies? What a load of BS. You might want to go and
educate yourself on what real slave labour is like, and not farcially try and
compare it with jobs that people choose to do and get paid money for so doing.

And without private companies and the entreprenuers who start them we'd end up
with a bankrupt, dead end society going nowhere just like the soviet union
ended up as.

B2003

At least read what I actually said. I did not in any way claim that
any paid jobs in the railways constitute slave labour. I was making a
"sole purpose" statement which was equivalently extreme to yours.

As it happens, slave labour is the ultimate aim of private companies
if their power is not balanced by the labour having some kind of
representation. In this country it is balanced to some extent, so we
don't have slave labour outside of the industries that exploit
"illegals".