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To: re_tail20

They were at their membership high 30 years ago - in 1979 - with 1.5 million members.

In the last 30 years, they’ve lost 66% of their peak strength - down to about 500,000 members now.

It’s like pulling teeth, but their membership and relevance keeps on going down slowly.

It just takes our society time to realize it.


2 posted on 05/29/2009 12:21:38 PM PDT by re_tail20
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To: re_tail20

I wonder how many of these employees will be needed once they go to exclusively producing 4 wheeled Segways?


3 posted on 05/29/2009 12:26:09 PM PDT by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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To: re_tail20

“It just takes our society time to realize it.”

Naw, it just takes THEM getting beat down the same as they beat down the hand that fed them. (granted there were some times/places/reasons for that union)

Society didn’t give a crap, they either bought the cars or not.


5 posted on 05/29/2009 12:32:07 PM PDT by This_far
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