Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!riehm
From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Community College Teachers on strike
Message-ID: <255DCAC0.7630@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 12 Nov 89 19:55:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.255DCAC0.7630
References: <606@alias.UUCP> <1989Nov11.143948.15365@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <1989Nov11.143948.15365@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>
>Why do people always blame the union for protracted strikes?  Certainly it must
>at least sometimes be the management's fault!  Of course the union could end
>the strike at any time by giving in on all issues, but so could the management.

Is it possibly related to the fact that it is usually 
the *union* that proposes new working conditions  
which favour itself, rather than *management* that proposes new working 
conditions favouring itself?