re: #133 retired cynic

New essay from Stonekettle! Always Good to the last drop.

From the comments:

The late Harry Bridges, in his first term as president of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, sat through an hour’s worth of talk by West Coast shipowners and finally stood up with, “Gentlemen, your companies do not exist to give my men jobs. They exist to make money.

“That’s fine…but my men don’t work because they have nothing better to do, _They_ work to make money too. The day you realize that, we’ll talk again.” And left.