Competition Re: oh intellectuals!

Steven McGraw stmcgraw at vt.edu
Tue Feb 18 07:37:58 PST 2003


Steve wrote:


>Not directly, as you put it.
>
>In a world of limited resources everyone is in competition with everyone
>else. The maintenance staff at VT is in competeition with the faculty, the
>faculty is in competition with Richmond and corporate donors, unionized
>workers are in competition with nonunion workers in other industries, etc
>ec. This seems self-evident.
>

Then responded to himself (!):

Why do you think it's so hard to get people to unionize and organize across professional lines? Why won't skilled workers throw in with unskilled workers?



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