[rescue] Cluesticks (was Mounting and Dumping)

[Mike Meredith]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:08:18 -0800 (PST), Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- Nathan Raymond <nate at portents.com> wrote:
> > All of which reminds me, tech workers really should get organized
> 
> IMHO, this will *never* happen, because, really, despite recent
> events, Tech Workers are treated pretty well. Successful unions are
> built on the backs of the chronicly mis-treated workers (think coal
> miners, seamstresses, etc.), not on the sporadically impacted
> professional...

In the UK at least, there are unions for many kinds of workers who have
never been mistreated ... or at least not to the extent that coal-miners
were. For example teachers, education psychologists, civil service
workers and managers, etc.