Which was part of why I asked my mom - I smelled a rat, but couldn't ferret it out of my intuition. She's been doing intuitional ferretting much longer than I have :).
Reading the whole text of the proposal this morning, I easily found two things to object to - that you didn't need anything near a majority of providers to force all of them to accept a representative rather than remain independant (I like unions, I don't like people being forced into unions), and the whole "no striking for you!" thing (the ability to say "do this or we won't work" is a large chunk of a union's power, and taking it away makes a union into a paper tiger). I didn't tell my mom about those issues however, she objected to them on her own. So she and I were in agreement, even though I'm generally favorable toward unions while she's generally negative toward them.
I'm also dubious of what looks like a goverment-organized union to bargain with the government. Sounds like a conflict of interests to me. The more I think about this proposal the less I like it. . .
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Reading the whole text of the proposal this morning, I easily found two things to object to - that you didn't need anything near a majority of providers to force all of them to accept a representative rather than remain independant (I like unions, I don't like people being forced into unions), and the whole "no striking for you!" thing (the ability to say "do this or we won't work" is a large chunk of a union's power, and taking it away makes a union into a paper tiger). I didn't tell my mom about those issues however, she objected to them on her own. So she and I were in agreement, even though I'm generally favorable toward unions while she's generally negative toward them.
I'm also dubious of what looks like a goverment-organized union to bargain with the government. Sounds like a conflict of interests to me. The more I think about this proposal the less I like it. . .