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Ordinary workers meeting with someone like Gekko?

posted 9 years ago by ryan-anderson
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Did it strike anyone else as odd that the union reps meeting with Gekko were people who actually worked for a living? At every placed I've worked at (that had unions) there would be about 2-3 layers of union management between them and someone like Gekko. It's sort of like a Hollywood fantasy where workers run the union (as far as administrative, negotiating, etc) on their spare time.

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[–] Bozohead 9 years ago

The union reps came because of Bud. Gecko used Bud to get around the lawyers and management and speak directly to the union reps.

[–] ryan-anderson 9 years ago

Unless Blue Star was just about everything we saw on the screen, I don't see how those 3 people (who worked in the trenches) could represent all of Blue Star's labor. I mean, Carl's group was all the mechanics/maintenance people Blue Star had? That's pretty much impossible.

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[–] smoko 8 years ago

@ryan-anderson I think it's just taking liberties to make it easier to follow the story. Also, it means we get to see working-man Carl Fox meet Gecko.