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From: chuckf@crosslink.net
Date: Tue, December 17th, 1996 10:55:32 PM
Subject: Re: Boycott Tower Records! Rehire the Sunset Blvd 3!
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In <32B6CFEB.677D@becnet.com>, Rebecca High  writes:
>> Bruce Melendy  wrote in article
>> <32B0927F.382D@nowwhat.com>...
>> > Hey folks--
>> >
>> > Three union activists were just fired at the Sunset Blvd Tower
>> > Records, one (a two-year employee) for a $90 shortage, two for lying
>> > down during a store meeting. 

>> > Union organizing is, of course, a perfectly legal activity; firing
>> > someone for trying to organize a union is perfectly illegal. 

>Pro-union employees tend to be rather disgruntled anyway, so they
>probably weren't giving their jobs the proper attention, which led to
>the firings. Personally, I shop at Tower because my WXPN (local public
>radio station, home of the World Cafe, yea!)member card allows me a 10%
>discount. So, the place where I can get the lowest price will get my
>business, sorry I don't have much money to burn since the gov't is
>taxing the hell out of me (another subject entirely).
>Becky High

Agree.  What is it Todd says about unions?
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Paid my union dues so I 
Won't have to learn or change
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That's all they are.  An excuse so Leroy won't have to learn 
spell anything longer than Pabst.

I am not in a union, and my boss would definitely fire me 
for laying down during a meeting.

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