Comments on: The UAW Tried to Unionize Me When I Was Grad Student http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2009/11/05/the-uaw-tried-to-unionize-me-when-i-was-grad-student/ The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. - F.A. Hayek Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: harry http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2009/11/05/the-uaw-tried-to-unionize-me-when-i-was-grad-student/comment-page-1/#comment-10579 harry Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:01:13 +0000 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/?p=1795#comment-10579 Keeping with the dairy theme, I once sold Good Humor ice cream in Hartford, and was forced to join the Teamsters. Got a big button proclaiming, "I'm a Friend of Jimmy Hoffa." Wintercow is correct, Speedmaster. They may have tried to organize the milkmen, but they did not try to organize the Holsteins, who always knew the stall where their own grain was piled. Keeping with the dairy theme, I once sold Good Humor ice cream in Hartford, and was forced to join the Teamsters. Got a big button proclaiming, “I’m a Friend of Jimmy Hoffa.”

Wintercow is correct, Speedmaster. They may have tried to organize the milkmen, but they did not try to organize the Holsteins, who always knew the stall where their own grain was piled.

]]> By: Speedmaster http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2009/11/05/the-uaw-tried-to-unionize-me-when-i-was-grad-student/comment-page-1/#comment-10553 Speedmaster Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:12:47 +0000 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/?p=1795#comment-10553 Hehe. ;-) Hehe. ;-)

]]> By: wintercow20 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2009/11/05/the-uaw-tried-to-unionize-me-when-i-was-grad-student/comment-page-1/#comment-10550 wintercow20 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:48:11 +0000 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/?p=1795#comment-10550 Oh silly Chris, That was just a few rogue union members who were quickly reprimanded and I am sure thrown out of the unions. You are a revisionist historian, simply retelling stories to suit your present ideological agenda. Oh silly Chris, That was just a few rogue union members who were quickly reprimanded and I am sure thrown out of the unions. You are a revisionist historian, simply retelling stories to suit your present ideological agenda.

]]> By: Speedmaster http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2009/11/05/the-uaw-tried-to-unionize-me-when-i-was-grad-student/comment-page-1/#comment-10535 Speedmaster Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:14:10 +0000 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/?p=1795#comment-10535 Back "in the day" my grandfather was an independant running his own local dairy and farm. The union was often harassing him to join. Bullying, intimidation, the usual stuff. One day, they came to his truck as he was leaving and poured kerosene all over his truckload of milk, ruining it. Quite a nice bunch of people. Back “in the day” my grandfather was an independant running his own local dairy and farm. The union was often harassing him to join. Bullying, intimidation, the usual stuff. One day, they came to his truck as he was leaving and poured kerosene all over his truckload of milk, ruining it. Quite a nice bunch of people.

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