Fwd: Union Busters

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Sat Mar 27 07:32:15 PST 1999


Forward from another list.

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It always seems to be a question of whose ox is being gored. The following ffrom another (obviously conservative) list. Any other details?

MORAL SUPERIORITY'S ROCKY ROAD

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the ice cream activists whose flavors include Rainforest Crunch and Cherry Garcia and who recently sent an 11-foot ice cream pie to protest what they consider a lack of social spending in the Federal Budget, have been rather chilly toward their own workers' attempts at progressivism. When 19 maintenance workers at the company's St. Albans, VT, plant decided to join the local electric workers union, faster than you can say Wavy Gravy [or Chunky Monkey. both flavors] the heretofore blessedly leftist company tried to thwart the vote, saying that the presence of a union would threaten company cohesion. What's next -- United Fruit Company Banana Split? -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: YyzCA at AOL.COM Subject: Union Busters Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:20:59 EST Size: 2338 URL: <../attachments/19990327/e9c0070d/attachment.eml>



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