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Article #399Re: Strike
From: "John D. DiMarco"
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 15:08
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 15:08
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In article <89Mar13.135431est.11011@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> tap@ai.toronto.edu (Tony Plate) writes:
> ...if there is alot of strife
>and fighting about the allocation of the insufficient funds, then this sends
>a message that the underfunding is not OK.
>
Perhaps. But this labour dispute was limited to the university itself; it
didn't directly affect the government. The government has a tendancy to
ignore such things.
>Now, obviously there *might* be better ways of sending such messages, so
>suggest them, don't just flame me about being a heartless TA willing to
>sacrifice countless ugrads lives just so I can afford eat caviar while
>relaxing in my jacuzzi doing my 15 minutes per semester of marking.
>
OK... how about picketing Queen's Park for a week? That would send a much
clearer message to the government about our concerns re: underfunding. And
this time, I'll be glad to walk the picket line.
BTW, could you spare a pound or two of caviar? :-)
>Tony Plate
>
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Subject: Re: Strike
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 10:08:00 EST