[discostu]

So when government tells people who to hire and how to run their business that's bad? When union bosses do the same thing that's good?

Sorry, I'm of the opinion that when ANYONE tells people who to hire and how to run their business it's bad. People should, here's a novel concept, be allowed to run their business their way and if they're wrong the business will go under.

All non-union employees have the same leverage: they can go work elsewhere. I've seen a software company go under because nobody would work for them, they didn't pay squat and treated people like crap. Word spread through the local industry quickly and qualified respondents to their adds dropped and eventually ended outright. Pretty soon they couldn't make any ship dates, then they stopped getting contracts, and that was all she wrote, company gone. No union necessary to do it. Workers now have leverage all by themselves.

[Viva Le Dissention]

You're talking white collar again.

qualified respondents

Can you explain to me a non-qualified respondant who is applying for the job of a forklift driver?

Seriously, who is this person? Who ISN'T qualified to be a forklift driver?