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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:51:13AM -0500, saundrakaerubel.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
> 
> I came across this article and thought it would be good to post it on this 
> group.  What do others think about unionizing employees at dot com 
> environments?
> 
> Etown.com Employees File for Union Election
> Customer service employees at etown.com have become the first dot-com
> workers to file for a union election with the National Labor Relations
> Board. Workers will vote Jan. 12 on whether to make etown the first
> unionized dot-com.
> Read the article: Mercury Center @
> http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/039820.htm

Works of the Web, UNITE!
You have nothing to lose but your Aerons!

At the risk of striking a stridently anti-union tone, I have a hard
time believing that the working conditions of say, coal miners or
garment workers, where entire generations grew up in near-poverty,
illiteracy, and in constant danger of their lives - either due to
industrial accident or environmental disease - compare to the awful
stress of having the lumbar support on your Aeron slip during a
customer service call...

Of course, I don't know anything about etown.com - for all I know,
they employ old coal miners and garment workers and house them in
abandoned mine shafts, where they are constantly bombarded by a
deadly combination of coal gas and radon. But hey.

Steve,
representing the Establishment, apparently.

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