Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!xanth!ginosko!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: More About NJ Sabotage Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 89 01:41:10 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 40 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 280, message 5 of 7 From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) >Once again I ask - what are the unions trying to prove here? I can't see any >judge or arbitrator taking the union side on anything after all of this. Why are you so certain it's the union provoking this? Individuals get p-o'd at everyone when they're put out on strike. Not to mention that it's in the company's interest to fill the media with union horror stories. Don't be naive, the BOC's and the union are now at war and the first casualty of war is truth. If you've ever been involved with a union during a strike you'd know that the first thing they tell the membership is that the company will try to accuse them of sabotage and all sorts of things so keep your noses clean because it only hurts their (the union's) cause and try to ignore the propaganda campaign. This whole drama is nearly the same no matter who the union or who the company, don't be naive. And, so I don't appear entirely one-sided, the union will begin screaming that management refuses to even sit down and bargain, that scabs are being brought in by the zillions, that the whole strike was engineered by management for some incredibly clever conspiratorial reason and that union strike leaders and their families are being physically harassed etc etc. And no doubt some of it all will be true, but not much. Come back and report when charges are filed and the union is held responsible for this, not when some manager at NJ Bell calls the press to badmouth the union. I'd prefer if both sides spent their time settling their differences rather than playing media games. Calling information in Boston now yields a recording that it's not available. What fun. -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade 1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 Internet: bzs@skuld.std.com UUCP: encore!xylogics!skuld!bzs or uunet!skuld!bzs