Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!drutx!ahuta!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: Taxation is theft?: Wage Slavery? Message-ID: <507@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 09:22:26 EST Article-I.D.: whuxl.507 Posted: Tue Mar 5 09:22:26 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:49:24 EST References: <21651@lanl.ARPA> <346@psivax.UUCP> Organization: /usr/exptools/lib/netnews/myorg Lines: 21 > > Wrong, ever hear of a "closed shop" labor union? This is > the employee is coerced into paying union dues regardless of personal > desires. And don't say he can always quit, I know of very few "blue > collar" workers who can afford to be out of work(or at least not > without getting unemployment comensation - a tax supported program). > -- > > Sarima (Stanley Friesen) Ah suddenly we have a concern that the common laborer is in fact *forced to work*! But I thought our economic system was uncoercive? Is it really any different for the vast majority of workers who *must work for capitalists*? So I quit McDonald's to go to work for Burger King? What have I gained? Very little I would guess. It is a most curious circumstance that what cannot be admitted for capitalism as a whole suddenly becomes an argument against unions..... yet if the union member feels dues are excessive s/he can vote against them or vote to reduce them. Can the worker at Burger Sweat do the same? tim sevener whuxl!orb