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Using the DocBook DTD for Internal Documents?
Saqib Ali asks: "These days, most of the Linux Documentation is created using DocBook DTD. I was wondering if it will be useful for a large Enterprise to create Internal IT documents using DocBook DTD. Any success stories where a large enterprise converted all of its internal IT documentation to DocBook, with management's support? Any other things/issues to keep in mind before embarking on such a mission?"
And this is why I believe that unions are too powerful.
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Where I used to live (Victoria, BC), janitors in the hospital got paid more than the medical staff. Why? Because the medical staff were considered an essential service by the government, and therefore not allowed to strike. Because the janitors were not considered essential, they were allowed to strike, and therefore drove up their pay rates.
Unions were useful in their day. They eliminated harsh working conditions. Now the government performs that task with laws, and unions have become superfluous.
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I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.
The problem isn't the Union -- it's the government.
The government created the Canadian health service, which in turn made it impossible for medical workers to negotiate via collective bargaining.
The "lazy union worker" image is just that -- an image pushed by business and the media. And while some things, particularly senority systems and the greviance process, seem very strange and wasteful, they are there because employers like railroads, meat packers, health services and school boards screwed their employees in those areas.
I expect anti-union attitude amongst IT staff and programmers will change as their jobs are rendered obsolete by automation and cheap competition.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Read Fast Food Nation , and then either 1) reiterate your claim, explaining how a slaughterhouse as described by Schlosser doesn't constitute a harsh working condition, or 2) refute the factual evidence presented about slaughterhouses. Hint: no one in the meat industry has been able to find factual errors in Schlosser's account.
There are plenty of other examples, of course, that's simply the first that comes to mind. Harsh working conditions exist, and industry has figured out how to work with government to prevent safety regulations from being implemented.