Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: More About NJ Sabotage Message-ID:Date: 11 Aug 89 02:05:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 48 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 289, message 7 of 8 From: ijk@violin.att.com (Ihor J Kinal) >I've been scanning the news articles, but I HAVE NOT seen any BELL >MANAGER accuse the UNIONS of sabatoge. Then where exactly are the papers getting this info? Certainly the mere disruption of service is not enough for a newspaper to print "SERVICE SABOTAGED BY UNION!". Someone must be feeding them this analysis. Last I heard it wasn't the practice of non-striking employees to speak to the press for the phone company during a strike (nor the press likely to believe their analysis of an outage.) I doubt the unions are giving this info to the press, so who??? Telepathy? I'm sure if you called one of these newspapers and asked (and they're willing to tell you) you'll find they're re-printing summaries of official press releases prepared by the phone co's PR dept and mailed to all the major newspapers. Either that or interviewing managers as a result of investigating some large service disruption, some reporter looking for an angle, but more likely getting it from "official sources". Maybe you have some fantasy that newspapers do all this careful investigation and would never just reprint some company press release, hah! > From the nature of Barry's article, though, it would appear, since >the UNION is not culpable, and that the UNION MEMBERS are not culpable, >that either the GENERAL PUBLIC or MANAGEMENT of the BELL CO are doing >this to make the UNIONS look bad. I didn't say the union was not culpable, I just said I don't know that they are. How do you even know there was *any* sabotage? Because some phone service got disrupted and the phone co blamed it on the strikers? Maybe, maybe not. In fact the phone co might feel justified in labelling abandoning their posts or half-completed work "sabotage", who knows, be a little cynical, in cases like this it's healthy. Everyone's trying to manipulate the public. -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade 1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 Internet: bzs@skuld.std.com UUCP: encore!xylogics!skuld!bzs or uunet!skuld!bzs