That's all we need. Some whacko movement to get bloggers into a union, get health benefits, press credentials etc.
Story in today's Toronto Star lays it all out on page 2. It appears to be a movement arising more from the American left than the American right. No surprise there. But some people are actually taking it seriously. The president of the National Writers Union, a local of the United Auto Workers,says the union is trying to figure out a strategy to reach bloggers and encourage them to join.
With all the challenges in this world, some people are focusing on this? That's all we need - Buzz Hargrove, he of the profanity-laced, mangled syntax tirades, representing bloggers.
Count me out Charlie. This country already has gone way way way too far in copyright protection - the day someone imposes any kind of organization on bloggers, I'm outa here. And those of you who can hardly wait for that day? - blow it out your ear.
Prediction - Jack Layton will jump all over the plan. It's his kind of smarmy barmy idea.
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Grumpy, the article is talking about bloggers who get paid to blogg, not bloggers in general. Just like, people who work, for instance as carpenters belong to an union, and get benefits, wages and so on, but when they go home and help a friend on their reno or do work around their own joint, well that's not paid or union work. So quit being so grumpy.
Bollocks, Jan. The article is about trying to unionize a bunch of self-employed people, including those who don't make a red cent from their hobby efforts.
it's a ludicrous idea from start to finish.
I can see the Bond Papers local now: "Right. I am going to down tools until I pay myself more and give myself paid leave and health insurance.".
To which management, i.e. me, will reply, "But you don't get paid anything to do this now, ya berk and you have health coverage through your day job."
At which point I will go on strike against myself.
And someone will lock me up as a looney for listening to a bunch of twits at a union who have nothing better to do than dream up how to apply a 19th century concept to the 21st century without adjusting for the passage of 150 years.
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