Where's the labor section?

[alice wellintown]

Richard Fiero,

Maybe I missed something but I don't recall reading an assertion. If
your assertion is, "There are no union members on P-L", your assertion
is false. Why this matters a fig I've haven't the foggiest idea. The
assertion that we on this List can't get VL right is stupid. Modern
texts can't be gotten right, let alone post-modern ones. Of course,
they can be gotten wrong. If this is your assertion kindly explain
what we've gotten wrong. The claim about hard hats and hippies and the
statement in SL that seems to support this claim is not false but only
a small part of the generational conflicts  in VL. That's obvious
enough. You don't need no union card to figure that out. Do you? I
read AGTD again, annotated it, as I did the first time, with labor and
work as my focus. My assertion is, like VL, AGTD is a novel about
Work.





On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Livingston wrote:
>>
>> > I don't think there are *any* union members on this list.
>>
>> Well, I'm a former one. I had to sign up to keep my job once. Paid
>> dues for a few years and found out the dues got you nothing, but that
>> they helped support the extravagant tastes of the union brass. Lots of
>> gold jewelry on em, in their Cadillacs, and a ditzy dame in every
>> other seat. Was already pretty anti-union because of the jobs I
>> couldn't get until I paid the dues--which I couldn't afford until I
>> got the job. Also watched incompetent slugs rise in the ranks by
>> duration rather than skill.
>
>
> The assertion was made in response to a post by Kai which mentioned the
> intersection of labor and politics in P. Some imaginative responses to my
> assertion were made by Ian, Alice and Rich. Well what do you expect from a
> crew that can't even get Vineland right?
> Here in the US every newspaper has a business section. Where's the labor
> section?
> Ex: Arizona State Carpenters' Union Local 1089.
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