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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Community College Teachers on strike
Message-ID: <1989Nov14.111341.27052@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 89 16:13:41 GMT
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mdhutton@violet.waterloo.edu (Mike Hutton) writes:
>I'm especially down on union management.  In my home town they convinced the
>membership to strike (about 18 months) a barely-above-water foreign-owned 
>industry for higher wages.  Need I explain the outcome?  There are now 
>2000 less people working there.

This attitude is what I was talking about.  I'm sure it's true that the union
held out for those 18 months, but so did the management.  People on
tor/ont.general always forget this, and I was asking why (or asking them to
stop forgetting this).

ajr