On 9/2/2014 11:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:52:23 -0600, Mayo > wrote:
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>>> Confusion reigns. I was a Brother Teamster when I worked as the
>>> concierge at a hotel lifting a telephone hand set up to my ear.
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>> I can not imagine any reason a job of that sort needed to be unionized.
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> Unions will organize any place they can. I assume the Teamsters
> organized the hotel workers. There is a solid reason that the
> concierge would be a member. They want his dues money.

Point.

> One place I worked had the people packing plastic parts as members of
> the International Laborers and Hod Carriers.
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> Hotel workers are generally low on the pay scale. I don't know enough
> about them to say a Union would be good or bad for them.

I suppose the question is are they being oppressed to any great degree.