Chamber owes us: In Jim Zauher’s business column, the Aril 3 Record Searchlight, he writes that business is an ally not a foe of the unions, and this is as it should be. However, Zauher missed an important point and that is: the business/customer relationship is not a one sided affair. Without the workers and customers to buy the product the business wouldn’t exist. If not for the people with money to spend where would the business be, especially in Shasta County and its cities: Redding, Anderson, and Shasta Lake City. Just about every business belongs to and pays dues for membership to the Chamber of Commerce. The chamber has historically been the largest foe of the unions and even nonunion working people, but especially union workers, which have good wages, pensions and health insurance (why haven’t we heard from the doctors who benefit from the union workers’ health insurances?). It just baffles me why businesses are not showing up at the Redding’s city hall and helping people ...
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