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Article #204Re: Tubular Debacle Highlights Moral Bankruptcy
From: Barrie Abbott
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
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Orvin Lau (olau@unixg.ubc.ca) wrote: : In article <4cq5ue$jf7@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, babbott@unixg.ubc.ca (Barrie : Abbott) wrote: : | Live with it: CUPE won this round. : Arrogance, in conjunction with public cynicism, brought down the : Conservative party and NDP in the last federal election. CUPE isn't : immune either: the public opinion will eventually hit back, and the longer : CUPE tries to hold off, the harder the whiplash will be. Mea culpa. That was an arrogant statement. True, too. But what would you expect CUPE, or any other union to do? Voluntarily roll back our wages? Throw out our pension plan? Let non-unionized workers take our jobs away? Whatever you would like to happen is not going to happen in the same way a government is booted out. The union is here to stay. cheers
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c943,5a83af437f1d6226 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c943,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,5a83af437f1d6226 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,5a83af437f1d6226 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public From: babbott@unixg.ubc.ca (Barrie Abbott) Subject: Re: Tubular Debacle Highlights Moral Bankruptcy Date: 1996/01/09 Message-ID: <4ct4c0$1sv@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 135012699 references: <4cju23$sqn@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4cq5ue$jf7@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <olau-0801961148130001@port31.annex4.net.ubc.ca> followup-to: ubc.general,van.general,bc.general organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada newsgroups: ubc.general,van.general,bc.general