Re: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?

>  From:    rob@dekko.com (Rob Berendt)
>  
>  Unions have a history of doing this same stupid thing.  
>  Michelin tires for example.  'Management unfair!  Buy 
>  someone else's product' (and put me out of a job)!

This may be a consequence of Management grabbing all the union workers that 
appear to be half way intelligent, so that the union tactics get dumbed down.

From perspective of the union it is not stupid.

They do not care about the individual workers who are paying the dues, 
they only care that the union will remain a force in power at that company & 
that industry.

Thanks to the labor management dispute, the company loses market share, so 
the union is hoping that in the future, the company will bow to the union to 
avoid suffering the union discipline again.  What this does to the number of 
workers who are members of the union is not important.

If union violence happens to destroy a few companies, then this will send a 
message to other companies that they had better obey their unions or else.  
What this does to the jobs for the workers who used to work there is not 
important.

The only thing that is important to the union is the war with capitalism.  

I heard a union story out of Australia ... is this urban legend ... computer 
workers there are unionized ... programmer union worker cannot change the 
paper in a printer because that is the computer operator union job.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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