re: Cops are Heros and they protect us.

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Cops are Heros and they protect us. NYPD finally getting the right idea.. leave us the frick alone and stop with the money grab!

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Pretty interesting phenomenon.....what the cops are doing is the oldest form of successful labor action ever undertaken by man. The practice is called " wobbling" after the Wobblies, and it has been used throughout the history of man to gain better working conditions. Slaves wobbled, even office workers and professionals wobble.....take a look at any management literature written In the last 100 years and you will find references to worker moral, lack of production, and how to correct or adjust for the action of wobbling. When people are not satisfied in their work they are less productive.....it may be an organized lack of production, as in this case, or something that just happens....either way it costs the man money and that is the only way to get the mans attention.

Wobbling is much more effective than striking because the participants are still being paid and management has no chance to hire replacements. I have been involved with organized labor my entire life as a member, as management and as an owner of a company with a collective bargaining agreement. I have wobbled and I have been wobbled and I know first hand that the method is very effective. In my 50 years I can't think of a single strike where workers benefited in the long run....on the other side of that I can't think of a single time I have ever been involved in or heard of a wobble where whatever grievances were at issue were not solved in a very short time and usually in the favor of the aggrieved.

I know you anti-labor types will claim wobbling is a theft by lazy malcontents but the practice is exactly what capital does when they idol production during periods of low demand or over supply. When you produce automobiles and they aren't selling you slow down production...if you didn't you'd be a fool. When you are producing labor and for whatever reason demand slips you are a lazy malcontent if you slow production.

All this being said I ain't sure a wobble will work for Policemen. Their management will no doubt squeal like a mashed kitty but the public at large will enjoy a reprieve from being harassed and harangued for petty offenses that are more times than not mere mistakes instead of intentional acts of crime.