From: gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear-at-heart)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
Date: 31 Dec 92 23:30:46 EST
Organization: Univ of Toledo

In article <1hvkaiINNalh@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) 
writes:
> Progress...anyone have any examples of some?  Maybe identifying 
> companies that do *not* yet have them, but who show evidence 
> of not discriminating based on SP, and sending them samples of 
> how other companies have solved the problem would cause more 
> companies to offer DP benefits? 

     This is one of the OLDEST rubrics under the sun, when it comes to
mismanaging businesses, but hiding behind the concept of being a "scaredy-cat"
== afraid of being the FIRST company to do something that needs to be done!

(flame on)
     NOW LET ME BRING THIS BACK to Colorado's #2:
"Before I vote on this matter, I want to know how OTHER PEOPLE are voting on
 this issue"

     Voila, the blind leading the blind, and CO#2 passes 53:47!
(flame off)

     Just look at the state of the car/truck/van/jeep industry in the USA verus
the rest of the world.  "As goes GM, so goes the nation".  No wonder this
country has a multi-TRILLION dollar debt problem!  "Hey if Brazil and Peru can
run up a billion dollars of debt a day, why can't we?"

     WHY THE HELL SHOULD I CARE WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING, IF I KNOW WHAT I OUGHT
TO BE DOING?

     If 40 milllion Americans pay only the minimum balance on the charge cards
each month, then how come some people pay their balances in full each month? 
Hey its ONLY 18% interest -- 40 million people can't all be wrong, can they?

     But sometimes, people do rely on what other folks do, instead of sitting
on the proper side of the law.

     55 mile an hour speed limits save lives!  Yet MILLIONS of cars exceed the
speed limit every day of the week.  "What do you mean I was going over the
speed limit--why didn't you pull over those 15 other cars that were also doing
70 in the 55 zone?"

     "Cause that is the law, and I can only pull over one car at a time" 
 
     Just do it, do the RIGHT thing!  If you really care about EQUAL rights,
then do whatever you can, to make sure that EQUAL means EQUAL! (and put the
quotes from ANIMAL FARM out to the pasture)

     Remember, the policies, handbooks, regulations, laws and court cases that
we are all discussing were NOT suddenly appearing on our desks out of the blue. 
They were all written BY PEOPLE, and therefore they can be CHANGED by people
who want them changed!

     Slavery was legal in many parts of the world, even though it was 
considered immoral by some, while at the same time, other people argued that 
it was an economic necessity, and by-passed the ETHICAL and HUMAN aspects 
of slavery.

     That doesn't mean that you have to survey what your competitor's policy
is regarding slavery before addressing it in YOUR corporate policy statement. 

     Your company can extend EQUAL benefits if IT WANTS TO.  

     Plain & Simple!
--
"Not your average Leathered Librarian"
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