DEAR EDITOR:
Mr. Brescoll, thanks for the opportunity to have one more volley
over the net regarding your recent comments on unions being anti-
this and anti- that. I profess I am not a student of unions so will
let another player challenge your volleys regarding the ins and out
of union management, misuse of dues ad infinitum.
DEAR EDITOR:

Mr. Brescoll, thanks for the opportunity to have one more volley over the net regarding your recent comments on unions being anti- this and anti- that. I profess I am not a student of unions so will let another player challenge your volleys regarding the ins and out of union management, misuse of dues ad infinitum.

However, my May article NEVER stated I believe that union workers deserve representation on the city council over and above anyone. I made the simple statement that union workers deserve representation as much as any other citizen of Gilroy. I hold the state of our republic and its principles of one person-one vote very close to my vest.

If Ms. Rogers or Mr. Joe Union has enough support from our voting citizens to get elected, then so be it. That person on the council may not be your choice, but they were put there by a majority vote. I, too, feel the frustration of not having my candidate win in 2000; but I will put my efforts into having him replaced in 2004. You can begin your grassroots efforts now!

You also stated that union workers are disenfranchised by those who serve them because the “leadership and bureaucracy” is shaped by those who’ve seldom held a union job.” Seems to me another political comparison can be made to our own current administration: current military and foreign policy has been shaped and formed by several who were never in the military or held a foreign policy job and I am very disenfranchised by their policies. The good news is that there is always an election around the corner, whether it’s for the city council, a union leader election, or a government election. Just vote! Being part of a voting system, however, doesn’t guarantee that our choice is always elected. Majority rules … consensus reigns!

You also condemn union leaders of using their workers as “pawns to be manipulated in an effort to control American business at the expense of all Americans.” Sounds suspiciously like a Washington lobbyist. After all, who benefited the most from the prescription drug bill … our seniors or the drug companies? Union leaders have the power of the vote as we citizens do. Just vote!

My last volley is that if a majority of people vote a union member onto the city council so be it. You cannot and should not restrict anyone from running for any office because they have beliefs that are different than yours. Your volley.

Kristine Dillon, Gilroy

Submitted Friday, June 18 to [email protected]

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