You can't go home again

Subject: You can't go home again
From: "Nancy Mignone" <n_mignone -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:46:33 -0700

I appreciate Dana Worley's comments and those of Andrew Plato, especially

If you can write a complex document about databases or microchips, you should be able to defend yourself from greedy corporate bosses.

Let me hasten to say that I am extremely happy at my current position. I am enjoying all the benefits and frustrations described by Peter Hartman in Starting a Documentation Group.

Nevertheless, I am pro-union. My mother worked in a factory at a time when women were just entering the job force. She benefited from her union. She rose to a position of loading dock boss. My cousin is now an executive well-known in the northeast for the same corporation, and she started at the same factory with the same union in mid-Jersey.

My parents lived prosperously for sons and daughter of immigrants in their retirement, and they worked very hard to enjoy that relative prosperity.

Unions are a strong part of the emergence of America's workers into positions of respect and of self-respect (and out of dirty, crowded cities and into the suburbs - we are migrants of a sort).

You may say unions make no sense for me. After all, I have post-graduate degrees, good skills, and can certainly take care of myself. Perhaps unions are not in reality what they are to me emotionally. I think, in my Woodie Guthrie frame of mind, that they are almost sacred, the stuff of America. I understand this is my own folklore, born of books and music and home.


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