crisis

I think they started over here in the clothing industry when they use to use

chidlren and women for labor and worked them exessively hard for long hours under lousing factory conditions...so they needed the unions in ways.

But the ones of today may be something different.  I can't say the lousy one I

worked for wanted to recongnize the basic things as even on the job senority over here. You know I nearly took them to court...and I had the

Federal employement office in job discrimnation backing me...I wold of had

to fight it out going from here to Seattle and had an tiny baby at the time...so

I did't do it. But afterwards I found out they had been CONSTANTLY been

sued for the same thing and problems I had been having...and they most

gnerally lost their case also. But even had I won and they paid my back wages and all court costs..I wondered what kin dof an hassel it would be

working there everytime something came up that we disagreed with. I know

this union hated me from the day I walked in there...because they were the

same ones I had to deal with in the nursing facilty I worked at as an supervisor. I assume that reason alone they would of never helped me

really. I never made big bucks being an female supervisor...let alone retail

clerking....but I sure did learn an lot abot how not to do things. this union

nearly killed me and caused my first near-death expereince...they killed

many many people back then and I was there at the state board meeting of the health examiners when they traced down an potentially serious Asian

Flu bug back to the front public bthroom which had been serviced that morning by an guy they had planted into the facilty that was an silent union

representative at the time. They said it appeared the "germ" started sometime after the cleaned the bathroom.  At the time on of my friend's

17 year old daughter worked there...she died from it...though the autopsy

revealed her docotor had been treating her teenage acne as such when it

was really an kidney problem un-diagnoised. Such are living in small towns

I guess back then. They are discriminatory in every way at times...all sectors of it at times also...or can be.  I can't tell you how the death of

thier daughter lead to the break up eventually of the entire family....

not to mention the heart ache they endured.  the union never got in...the

butt-head guy they inplanted left telling me that I'd always be an "beer" person until I was uniionized...and I told him that I'd rather be an "beer"

person then an murderer...though I generally don't drink such beverages.

And of course the facilty was prepared to close it's doors had it got into the

place and change it's name as start business all new...they lost the the place anyway. They asked me what I wanted to do with my gals...I sai dlet them go join the laundry union..the "teamsters" and so they closed down

my entire department and sent it out to an laundry and they had an union..

they made my department into an lunchroom and that might be good...as

I'd walk into the rooms and see the nurse's aide sitting down constantly on

the job...the first to yell they worked to hard...while my gals ere timed and

programmed to machines moving all day long.So justice was served and

the new owners lost it also..because the problem was never really solved

with the nursing staff to begin with. What does bad nursing do for you...they

cause things like my Gall stone operation...the last one I ran into I got into

it with at the hospital was huffy when she left...but she was going to make

me take an MIR test..my heart doctors tell me I can't have one...it won't register right with the stent in my heart. She jsut thought she knew it all..I

was mad by the time I left there.(hosptial)...not to mention the cost of it all.

the costs are exhorbarant these days whom don' thave 100 per cent paid

Health insurance..and besides...who really wants health problems..I can't

think of anyone....not even these people that work for the medical field. All

they have done is make me an dmy family suffer in both cases...going and

not going.,,not to mention working. I can see why people have gone to home

care more so these days...even if they do have the bettter of things to work

with....it's really hard to find an doctor that heals.... rather then meagerily

treats someone.....if they even do that. Bad vibes...reflective of the end times I guess as they say. They have most recently "condemed" us to diabetes in the future days also from the news media out the past couple of days...what they expect when all thier major city  fund-raisers are laced with sweet wine and booze all the time...loaded with sugar.

I should just laugh abou tthese issues and turn my head the other way..but

by god..they are NOT going away...this world condition of people turning their heads the other way...and laughing things off  has gotten us to where we are right now. People are rioting while they deny the truth of things. They

are dying at to high an price...at the hands of so called incompetant so called "authority" at that. Now enough said. As Harry Truman said about

big business back then...they act like an bunch of" bastards" to have to  deal with them most the time.....and someone compared me one time to

Harry Truman...who was known for laying the cards on the table....but

likewise I've had both sides complement me also...that I was an good person...and did an good job...well worth the money I was ever paid.  

Crisis?  What Crisis?  ran The Sun newspaper's headline in January 1979 after Labour PM James Callaghan returned to England facing press questions about mounting industrial action from the unions after he'd imposed a 5% wage increase limit on public sector workers.

With the Conservative-Lib Dem coalitions cuts proposing 500,000 public sector job losses, will the Sun at some point in the future be resurecting  their infamous headline?