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Re: Mr. Tubesteak guy run off out of town by unions!

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From: J. Chapman
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 00:00
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In message <4bfd91$ps5@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> - Michael Kyba <kyba@bcu.ubc.ca> writes
:
:>
:>johansen@portal.ca (George Johansen) wrote:
:>
:>> You fail to
:>>consider some of the problems encountered by allowing him to be there. 
:>>First, he paid minimum wage to some girl who worked the cart most of the
:>>time for him... no benefits, no nothing.
:>
:>Typical of the weak socialist mind:  make a statement that you THINK
:>must be true because, hey, those damn bloody capitalist pigs are just
:>trying to screw the whole world.  If you cared enough about people
:>to have actually had a conversation with her (instead of mentally
:>conscripting her into your army of oppressed, downtrodden workers)
:>you would know that her name was Glenna, and that she enjoyed very
:>much what she was doing.  The guy who owned the cart was in fact
:>there just as much as she was, and treated her fairly and with respect,
:>and not with the contempt that you thought you observed (or deduced.)
:>
:>

It is also untrue that she would have been getting no benefits. Provincial
law sets minimum benefit levels to be given to workers.
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From: tnr@infomatch.com (J. Chapman)
Subject: Re: Mr. Tubesteak guy run off out of town by unions!
Date: 1995/12/24
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