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Posted By: MT_Gone_Crazy on 2007-10-29
In Reply to: JUST FOR KICKS - Who here would support - scribbles

I absolutely would! I have considered this many many times over the last years, struggling to make ends meet. Everything going up but my pay. Making less each year for doing harder work. The list just keeps going on and on. I never could understand why we don't have one and mentioned it many times that we should! Count me in!

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JUST FOR KICKS - Who here would support - scribbles
- Not me, at least as long as I have a choice. - me
- i am in a union..sm - aa
  - What is the name of your union? - Barry Watts
- ME - nana
  - Email me privately - scribbles
- sm - MT_Gone_Crazy
- So, it's just for fun but only serious replies appreciated? - For fun: No. Serious: NO!!
  - Oh give it a rest - - scribbles
- union - Kristy
  - Good, sent me an email privately... - scribbles
- I would! This profession is all but dead - without some kind of serious HELP.
  - Email me privately nm - scribbles
    - I would, except the tone of some of your posts leads me to believe - you're mainly here to stir up the antihive.....
      - That's fine - scribbles
        Well, on the one level of unionization, I do feel - that you're honestly interested - sm
        Come on - don't let them make you too afraid - scribbles
      - Oops - I meant ANThive, not 'anti-hive'! - Can't spell without coffee !
- Seriously...I would - MT editor
  - Have to email me privately - scribbles
- Serious reply: There is no leverage. - Outsourcing and speech recog are here.
  - Seriously? That's what The Group Formerly Known as AAMT SM - Ginny Hoffa
  - LOL - - scribbles
- Serious reply, but you're not going to like it - Disunion
  - It also sounds like the HMO's - so why not get - - some suits & intimidators on OUR side?
  - Truth about unions - good for employees - MTing
    - THANK YOU for that - UNION BUSTERS - scribbles
  - OK< but the post asked who would SUPPORT - scribbles
    - Put me down for a no thanks, as well. - moving on
      - Why bother answering at all - scribbles
        And why do you bother to answer him/her? Seems you always have to have the last word. nm - just curious
        Ya, she doens't sound 100% pro-MT to me somehow. - NM
- Ive been wondering for years why we don't have a union. - Anon
  - I think it's because back in the old days, when - - the 'Invisible' MT
  - I'm older than the AAMT by 5, they were - anon
  - Who's going to give up the life they have now and try to form one?!! - It would be like becoming President. nm Not for me
    - Not for you, maybe, but it just might be - for SOMEONE....
    - Like becoming President? I don't follow your line of thinking. - Please elaborate. nm
      - It would be all-consuming to get a union going from the ground up. Could you give - up your time, family, and job to do it?? nm

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