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workers' rights

Submitted February 18, 2004 - 4:49 pm by Bill Conroy
Trevor,

You hit the nail on the head. That is what should happen -- "standing up for what's right in the workplace."

Unfortunately, a whole host of bureaucratic pressures prevent problems from being addressed. Too many people in middle management find their careers benefit from maintaining the status quo and so they're afraid to rock the boat -- while those at the very top circle the wagons at the first sign that their power may be threatened. It is no longer about right and wrong, but rather only about winning.

The frightening thing about this institutional morass is that our current political leaders likely only made the problem worst by taking a lot of megabyte dysfunctional federal agencies and combining them into one gigabyte agency -- the Department of Homeland Security. It seems to me that's similar to networking a bunch of broken, incompatible computers and arguing they'll somehow run better.

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