Now, this is too good! TIME.com reports:
"Hunger pains can apparently turn even the most upstanding diplomat into a looter. At noon on Friday, food workers at the U.N. headquarters walked off their jobs, calling a wildcat strike. The result: none of the U.N.'s five restaurants and bars was staffed. The walkout left thousands of U.N. employees scrounging for lunch--eventually, the masses stripped the cafeterias of everything, including the silverware."
Obviously, anything done without the imprimatur of these sagacious diplomats would be illegitimate. Let's get these guys taking care of Iraq right away -- I am convinced!
Posted by jk at May 4, 2003 08:26 PMThis one was a must-blog, JK. I saw it last night and planned to do it myself. I believe it makes two important points.
First, the U.N. is an organization of second-handers living on wealth created by others and devoting their careers to redistributing that wealth according to socialist doctrine. That so many of them looted the cafeterias when given a chance is completely in character for them.
Secondly, the union organizers who called the unnecessary and ineffective strike concluded that the issue they struck over was not the responsibility of the present food service contractor at all. It was the prior contractor's obligation. In effect, they went on strike to force the present contractor to meet their demands but concluded the strike by agreeing that it was misguided in the first place. It's possible they made this decision through reason although reason would have prevented the strike in the first place. It's most likely the realization their union workers could simply be replaced was the primary cause of the union's retreat.
Posted by: JohnGalt at May 5, 2003 07:29 AM