[Fmpro] Fw: Letter to the Editor Local 47

[Rick Blanc]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Les Hurdle 
To: Rick Blanc ; fmpro at nxport.com 
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Letter to the Editor Local 47



On Aug 19, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Rick Blanc wrote:

> Union reform is not possible, in my opinion, because steps toward 
> reform would systematically dismantle union power.

Isn't the real point here.... it is the power of the suits who are in 
control........... their own personal empires, just like PRO's etc.

L [pd]



I accept power as a fact of life.  Its not as though my objection is based on a visceral anti-authoritarianism.  But how is that power being used?  Some systems, for example the Soviet system, are inherently unreformable.  I don't know whether that is true of this union or not but I suspect it is.  Unions are like a Petri dish for corruption and no amount of dressing it up changes the animal.

Bottom line, the highest principle is freedom.  Freedom to work, to choose etc.: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and property.  If those freedoms are being compromised there better be a damn good reason.  

What's happening in the Musician's Union today, in my opinion, is a classic example of a power structure having been hijacked by an elite, an oligarchy.  I for one am not going to sit idly by and acquiesce. 

Rick