From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 14:01:34 MDT
Ron H. observed:
<<But back to my original point? What has happened that the unemployed
are no longer viewed as valuable assets? Why aren't employers & investors
putting those people to work to make money for everybody?
Sorry for the rant folks, but this thread is on my favorite subject --
manufacturing. <G>
Ron h.>>
Ron, I am not sure that historically the unemployed were ever viewed in this
country as "valuable assets" except, perhaps in the political rhetoric of the
Democratic Party. The actual political-economic choices made by both
democrats and republicans, as far as I can tell, has been to defer to the
interests of corporations, which lobby both parties. Maybe in the 1950's and
60's the Labor Unions attempted some measures toward that stated end, but
again, the reality was to provide greater benefits for those workers who were
member of the Union.,
Re-training, education, assisting in the profitability of the corporation was
not something that unions or management ever held as a 'core value.' At
least not as far as dis-employed workers are/were concerned.
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