Monopoly Bookstore Chains and Left Wing Magazines.

[Shelvers at aol.com]

>Actually, Borders has I believe unionized a number of their stores.  The
>IWW and UCFW are in a bit of an inter-union tiff over this. I have avoided
>Borders partially because of their union-busting in some stores, but the
>chains are actually more likely to unionize than most of the groovy
>independents.


>--nathan

Oh, dear.  No, no, no, Borders has unionized a number of their stores?  No, a
collection of employees have organized 3 Borders stores, against a massive and
very expensive campaign by Borders mgmt to bust it.  

My "uh, stammer stammer", wasn't implying that we we're still sticking with
the IWW -- it was meant to say that our experience with the UFCW wasn't that
much better than with the Wobs.  

Just for fun, I'm following this post with a copy of a letter all of our
employees received from Borders President Richard Flanagan stating Borders'
position on unions.  It's quite fun to read...