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by xyzzyz 4464 days ago
The AMA is not a union by any traditional metric. It is a professional association. If a doctor is lured to a hospital for enormous sums of money, the AMA has absolutely no say over it. Nor do they dictate that another doctor has to be offered the job because they've been practicing for two months longer. Nor do they dictate that the doctor has to be paid for scale grade 7E because to do otherwise would cause resentment among other doctor's.

Nor does union have to do all that stuff. You're attacking a strawman.

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But unions almost always concern themselves with such things. I may be attacking a "strawman" (ergo, how virtually every union on the planet operates), but humorously the salvation is just as much of a strawman, no?
Its how virtually all Unions don't operate - don't quote the propaganda leveled at craft unionism of the 1800's which has no bearing on real Unions of today.
You constantly speak of "propaganda" in this thread but do not provide any reliable data or citations to support your POV.
Looks like you are jumping on a bandwagon w/o offering any new argumentation. Echo chamber?