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On november 12, Vasya Marchuk
<vasyamarchuk@earthlink.net><http://home.earthlink.net/~vasyamarchuk>
turned his computer on, and his CPU Cooler was working long enough to give
his owner a small chance to write this:
OH, Really ?!!!!!! I think first you HAVE to REGISTER your Email Client
(Autoposterpro) And then to call us for something. Shame on you ! You could
have found at least a crack !!!
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>This article is posted by Newsgroup AutoPoster PRO (unregistered)
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>URGENT ACTION REQUEST!
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>Let us apologize for intruding on your news group, but we believe this is
of interest to everyone on the net and everyone who works for a living.
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>On Monday Nov 2, 1998 more than 2200+ unionized broadcast employees and
technicians at ABC walked off their jobs in New York, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
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>The camerapersons, editors, writers and technicians conducted a 24-hour
unfair labor practice strike caused by the illegal actions of ABC and its
parent Walt Disney Co. in withholding details of the company's proposed
health care plan.
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>In response to the legal 1-day strike, Disney/ABC illegally locked out the
NABET-CWA members.
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>WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!!
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>If you are a stockholder, email the Disney Company. Tell them how many
shares you own and tell them to let the NABET-CWA represented employees go
back to work. Tell them to settle the contract issues fairly, honestly and
legally before they loose the entire television season to the other
networks.
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>The following are email addresses for people who count at Disney:
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>Michael Eisner  big-cheese@disney.com   or  eisner@disney.com or
michael@disney.com
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>If you are a viewer, email the company and tell them that you will not be
watching ABC until they allow NABET-CWA represented employees to return to
work.  Then tell them that you will not be watching ABC until they fairly,
honestly and legally negotiate a settlement to the contract issues.
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>The following are email addresses for people who count at ABC:
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>Jeffrey Ruthizer -  ruthizj@abc.com
>Mark Sandman -  sandmam@abc.com
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>If these mailboxes should begin to overflow you can always send your email
>to webmaster@abc.com or webmaster@disney.com
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>As ABC viewers and stockholders of the Disney Company you can help
yourselves and us by boycotting ABC TV and Walt Disney stores, theme parks,
movies and videos.
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>If you are a public figure -- politician, actor, celebrity -- do not give
interviews to ABC news programs, or to KABC-TV, WABC-TV, KGO-TV and WLS-TV
until NABET-CWA employees are allowed to return to work.  By honoring our
electronic picket line, you send an important message that you won't have
anything to do with the union-busting tactics Disney/ABC is using.
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>WHY SUPORTING US HELPS YOU
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>If you are a stockholder, you should consider the fact that Company
management does not always have the best interest of the company's owners
(the stockholders) at heart. In most labor disputes, there is some misguided
CEO who has some ax to grind with the union or feels that the contract
>usurps his power as a CEO (which is never the case). He then says
competition and market conditions or productivity are the reason for the
dispute. The truth is it is never about any of that. It's about egos, power
and control. It is no different than medieval warlords and their lust for
>control of the peasants and the lands.
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>As proof I give you General Motors and UPS. In both of those labor
disputes, management, NOT THE OWNERS, decided to give up market share and
investor's profits to prove a point to a union. GM gave up nearly 1 billion
dollars over a matter that would have cost them just a few million dollars
to negotiate a fair settlement to. It would have cost the company less to
give
>each person at the plants a 1 million-dollar buy out. Instead, they refused
to settle the matter and on top of the hard cash that they lost, they lost
market share that will take years to regain, if ever. I think you'll agree
that is not what you call looking out for the investors.
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>UPS was no different. Here is a company that had invited the union in,
years ago, because they realized that it would be less expensive to deal
with its large labor force as a group, rather than to negotiate employment
terms with each individual employee. They wisely realized that a union could
actually benefit a large company. Now, however, years later, management
begins to feel like the people who do the work have a bit to much control
over their own destiny and just like the warlords of days gone by, no self
respecting CEO can abide by that. The answer, pillage and plunder. That's
right. Without consideration of the people in this country and the world,
who rely on UPS for everything from life saving medicines to inventory for
their business, the CEO of UPS foolishly decided that a strike would benefit
the company more than a settlement.
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>In both these cases, these so called "business people" caused a small local
matter to spill over into a national crisis that severely impacted
businesses and families across the nation and perhaps the world. That my
friends if you look at it from the CEO's position, is one hell of an ego
trip and an awful lot of power.
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>In the end, both companies settled and both companies lost! In the end many
people who had no interest in the initial dispute were hurt. If you ask me,
that is down right un-American. It should probably be illegal!
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>If labor were treated as little businesses instead of people trying to make
a living, the justice department would have been looking into GM, UPS and
Disney's  "illegal business practices" just as they are now investigating
Microsoft.
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>EVEN IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE UNIONS, THINK ABOUT
THIS.
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>No matter whom you work for, no matter what industry, whether you are a
laborer or a manager, your boss is a union member. That's right your company
belongs to a union. For ABC, Inc., that union is NAB, the National
Association of Broadcasters. Your saying, "NO NO, that's a trade
association, not a union," but think about it. Your boss belongs to a trade
association for the sole purpose of improving the business environment and
laws that govern your industry. Your company belongs to that union because
there is strength in numbers.
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>Now look at our union. We are an association of people who offer our
services to a business. Our purpose is to improve the work environment and
the laws that govern labor. What is the difference between them and us.
Nothing! Labor is as integral a part of free enterprise and free markets as
corporations are. In fact each person is a small corporation who offers
service in exchange for currency. No different than the company that makes a
car or cooks your dinner and sells it to you.
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>There are those of you who say that unions protect people who don't deserve
the jobs that they have. These people are often referred to as dead wood.
Let me suggest to you that perhaps there are a few people who get protection
when they are somewhat less than deserving, however, isn't that the basis of
our democracy and legal system. Are you not afforded a defense if you are
accused and you can not provide for yourself? Are you not presumed innocent
until proven guilty? Have we not all witnessed guilty people being set free
in order to insure that the innocent are not unjustly punished?
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>The next time your boss has the audacity to tell you that you should not be
a union member, ask him why the company belongs to a union if unionism is so
bad? For those of you who still think unionism is akin to communism, I
suggest you call Rush Limbaugh and ask him if he is an NAB member or if he
was ever a member of a union. I'll bet the answer is yes.
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>OK, HOW CAN YOU HELP US?
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>Send an email to the Disney and ABC bosses.  Boycott ABC and its parent
company, Disney.  Spread the word to your friends and family.
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>Thank you for your time, your help and your consideration.
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>The NABET represented employees of  Disney/ABC.
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