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I dont know that much about unions but I know where I worked for 11 years we had union and I felt happy to have them there for me, and where I work now, they wouldnt get away with the stuff they do if they had a union.
posted by
Lanetay
on November 18, 2010 at 8:15 AM
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I hear you, Justi! I find that people are waking up though (I mean those who really want to work and not just use the system to buy their beer) because many are not interested in joining unions. I try to encourage small business too, did the same even before I had my own. This was a great post!
posted by
adnohr
on November 18, 2010 at 4:00 AM
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As someone whose father owns several small businesses I am loving this post!
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 17, 2010 at 7:17 PM
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I make a point of buying from small businesses when I can
I'd rather shop on Etsy than Ebay and I adore small towns because so many businesses are still owed by families that know the people in the area and care about them.
posted by
Bel_
on November 17, 2010 at 7:02 PM
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a great post....how I resented entering University and being
forced to join the Union....Join or leave now I was told. I had been a farmers daughter and then in small business and to me it didn't make sense...now I know that a lot of the fees we paid went towards bands to play at lunch time ...and a centre for the unwed Mom's to leave their babies.Well good they were continuing their education.....but why should I be forced topay forit...I was broke then too and a single Mom.
posted by
Kabu
on November 17, 2010 at 11:00 AM
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Justi - you're so correct in that small business - which require so much are overlooked and I respect them most. I respect most the people who do have the values of expert care. It's no longer that in this ever changing society. Ah, I recall many of my ancestors pulling some heavy loads...my own daddy quit his 6th grade in school, to help farm the rice and sugar cane fields when his daddy, my pawpaw, died. Oh you are so dedicated and the proof is in the pudding. Dman was very impressed - we tasted just a taste of the cranberry chutney and yum...I can hardly wait until Thanksgiving...
write on, right on dear Lady. Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on November 17, 2010 at 9:25 AM
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Very interesting! Things have changed so much. My Dad started working in his Dad's Cafe when he was only five. He would stand on a big box and cook the steaks to order. He loved it and the customers loved it and tipped him very well. His love for cooking got him through the Great Depression and his early adult years, and added a grand dimension to our family and friends gatherings. What would happen these days if someone had a five year old cooking in a cafe? LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on November 17, 2010 at 6:55 AM
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Well like you Justi our family all had small businesses shops and smallholding etc. Of course it has all been taken over by the big guys. Funnily enough though a few new enterprizes are starting up again in forms that cannot be mass produced. There is a certain satisfaction in pushing your own plough, but it is always hard work, I had a smallholding for years there never seemed time to appreciate that I was free,
posted by
C_C_T
on November 17, 2010 at 12:34 AM
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