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*ylexot* ^(Premo) · 11-10-2008, 02:11 PM

Why can't the companies go to the unions and say, "you have to take pay/benefits cuts or the company closes permanently"? Are the unions the only ones who can make demands?

BTW, every time that I have seen a spokesperson/proponent for the "loan", it has been a union leader...

11-10-2008, 02:11 PM	#8 (permalink)
ylexot ^(Premo) Super Genius Member Since: Feb 2004 Location: St Inigoes, MD Posts: 10,818	Why can't the companies go to the unions and say, "you have to take pay/benefits cuts or the company closes permanently"? Are the unions the only ones who can make demands? BTW, every time that I have seen a spokesperson/proponent for the "loan", it has been a union leader... __________________ It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? -James Madison
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