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WT wrote: In the absence of a strong labor movement, and decent labor legislation, employers will commit all sorts of atrocities -- extended psychological testing, evaluation of spouses, monitoring of phone calls and e-mail, refusal to hire people with prior medical conditions -- and on and on.
I've always believed that a balance of power is just as necessary and important between labor and employers as it is between the branches of government. I think that's what helped sensitize me early on to the authoritarians. If you see the abuses in one place, it's easy to see them in another.
