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From: gbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gideon Sheps)
Date: Tue, 14-Nov-89 23:26:21 EST
Message-ID: <1989Nov14.232621.5494@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Community College Teachers on strike
References: <606@alias.UUCP> <1989Nov11.143948.15365@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <255DCAC0.7630@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: gbs@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Gideon Sheps)
Distribution: ont

In article <255DCAC0.7630@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>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?

No not really possible... when contract time rolls around both sides
sit down with their proposals ... favouring, as you said *themselves*.
Note: BOTH SIDES.

and then the bargaining begins. Strikes happen when the bargaining process
breaks down - as do lockouts.. which are "management strikes" so to speak.

-- 
Gideon Sheps
I am not a number ...                             ...I am a free variable !
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