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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
"You don't have to work Friday's, Oh you changed your mind ok you don't have to work Monday's either, I'm desperate!" Are you in favour of seeing the employer at the mercy of the employee? When you try to argue that it is good to give the employer the ability to let their employee dictate what he gets in the same post you are trying to make an argument against unions, it really creates a confusing mixed message. Quite ironic to be honest with you.
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This makes no sense, you realize that, right? The point is that there is a balancing of interests between the employer and the individual employee - the employer is at the "mercy" of the employee to exactly the degree they value the employee. There's no third party involved in that give-and-take exercise dictating terms to either party. They set them themselves.
There's just an obvious difference as soon as you introduce that third party making specific demands of both sides as to how their relationship should be governed that neither side has any real authority over. I'm not saying unions are bad, I'm saying the analogy doesn't hold.
Anyway, I'm just going to bow out because I have no particular dog in this fight and specifically said I didn't want to get sucked into this festival of motivated reasoning. Carry on.