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Subject:You can't go home again From:"Nancy Mignone" <n_mignone -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:46:33 -0700
I appreciate Dana Worley's comments and those of Andrew Plato, especially
If you can write a complex document about databases or microchips, you
should be able to defend yourself from greedy corporate bosses.
Let me hasten to say that I am extremely happy at my current position. I am
enjoying all the benefits and frustrations described by Peter Hartman in
Starting a Documentation Group.
Nevertheless, I am pro-union. My mother worked in a factory at a time when
women were just entering the job force. She benefited from her union. She
rose to a position of loading dock boss. My cousin is now an executive
well-known in the northeast for the same corporation, and she started at the
same factory with the same union in mid-Jersey.
My parents lived prosperously for sons and daughter of immigrants in their
retirement, and they worked very hard to enjoy that relative prosperity.
Unions are a strong part of the emergence of America's workers into
positions of respect and of self-respect (and out of dirty, crowded cities
and into the suburbs - we are migrants of a sort).
You may say unions make no sense for me. After all, I have post-graduate
degrees, good skills, and can certainly take care of myself. Perhaps unions
are not in reality what they are to me emotionally. I think, in my Woodie
Guthrie frame of mind, that they are almost sacred, the stuff of America. I
understand this is my own folklore, born of books and music and home.
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