Organizing McDonald's

[Apsken at aol.com]

I too was gratified to read the news in LBO. McDonald's has an especially
vicious record in breaking unions. Almost twenty years ago, when workers at
McDonald's in Dublin were organizing, the company dispatched to Ireland one of
its New York executives, Curtis Sliwa (best known as founder and fuehrer of
the beret-and-tshirt Guardian Angel vigilantes), to break their strike. This
was too good to resist. While reporters were listening to his boasts of
prowess, the plate glass of the storefront shattered. Fastened to the missile
was a note: "You Deserve a Brick Today."

Ken Lawrence