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Information technologies are here to stay and they can help any group; nonprofit, corporation or government agency streamline their operations and become more efficient. When everything is working right information technologies will help drive profits, strengthen communication and save money. Of course information technologies often also eliminate jobs. How can we sell information technologies and such concepts to unionized labor?

After all, unionized labor has a vested interest in keeping jobs not eliminating them. For instance, when the Long Shoremen at the ports saw their jobs would be eliminated because information technologies would take over the jobs of those counting the containers with a clipboard they went on strike. You can see why they were quite upset because quite a few people were making a hundred thousand dollars a year in a relatively easy job of holding a clipboard and marking down each container as it came through.

With information technologies attached to RFID technologies those jobs are no longer needed and we reduce the risk of human error. You can see why when a corporation switches to a new information technology program that that program must be sold to the unions as a positive thing. Otherwise it could be sabotaged and there will not be buy-in and thus the system will fail. Please consider all this in 2006.

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