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From: bprice@bmcg.UUCP
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Subject: Re: new twist on computer "crime" and law
Message-ID: <1398@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 16:49:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  1 16:49:07 1984
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Summary: 

In article  wall@ucbvax.UUCP writes:
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>                          it really doesn't make sense that the unions
>would be after programmers, since programmers are (for the most part) 
>well paid and work under good conditions. 

Shows how well you understand unions.  They want to get programmers, with
their good pay, because the better the victim is paid, the more union dues 
he can pay.  The better the working conditions, the less work the union
crooks have to do themselves.

>                                                        I think that the
>unions are concerned because the people who work at home will be harder
>to organize than the people who work at the office (since workers at
>the office are grouped together on a daily basis, there would be a better
>chance of unionization, whereas the people at home are scattered throughout
>an area and are harder to organize).

This paragraph is getting a lot closer to the problem that the union crooks
have with a work-at-home idea.  The very nature of a union is power:  the union
leader has it, because the demos in congress have given it to him.  He's not
about to agree with anything that will reduce that power, or reduce the uses
that he can put the power to, or reduce the income he can get from having that
power.

It's a lot easier to police a picket line when you have a place to picket.
How do you verify that your union members are obeying your strike orders if
they don't have to get by the goons to get to work?  If each person can set his
own working conditions, in his own home, how can the union use working
conditions as a contract (power) item?

Naturally, I'm not claiming my statements to be those of anybody else.  I could
get into deep sneakers if the unions that contract with parts of my employer
were to believe that my statements were company policy.
-- 
--Bill Price    uucp:   {decvax!ucbvax  philabs}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice
                arpa:?  sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc