You say that like it's a bad thing – looking at anti-union misinformation


	You say that like it's a bad thing – looking at anti-union misinformation

Lexica

8-21-2009 2:26 PM

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unions, labor, organizing, astroturf, work

Lexica says:

I don't know to what extent union laws need to be revised to address abuses. I can't tell, because the information pool is so polluted by propaganda‡. But to blame the unions every time that union-corporate interactions go wrong? That's like blaming the wife in every divorce.…

‡ And that in itself is a significant piece of information.

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