slander of my beloved affiliate on your elist

[Nathan Newman]

It is true- watching the nursing home struggle, you have to understand how
pathetic and nasty the state has been.  Basically, the workers staged a
one-day walkout, then were locked out for a week as punishment for striking,
using state funds to illegally hire replacements, then concocting all this
shit against the workers.  Maybe some of it is true, but the media just
swallowed it whole without any formal documentation while largely ignoring
the much more serious accusation of illegal use of government funds for
strike-breaking.

-- Nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: slander of my beloved affiliate on your elist

A union friend of mine happened to read Marta Russell's post
(appended below), and responded:


>Spreading the evil governor's slanders of caring-4-patient worker
>heroes (and I ain't being sarcastic here). We take the governor to
>court, documenting his use of $6 million in state funds to pay for
>replacement workers around the state -- a big labor story -- and the
>state releases this bullshit the same day so the idiot papers write
>about that crap instead.


>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:43:53 -0800
>From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org>
>Subject: Nursing home strike report
>
>If true this is certainly infantile and uncalled for.
>Marta
>
>New York Times-4-11-01
>
>"Hartford:Nursing Home Sabotage"
>
>"Allegations of vandalism and sabotage before a one-day strike at
>Connecticut nursing homes have been substantiated by  Chief State's
>Attorney John M. Bailey.  In a report released yesterday,
>investigators said that they found evidence of 34 incidents at nursing
>homes before the March 20 walkout by members of the New England Health
>Care Employees Union, District 1199.  The report said identification
>bracelets were removed from some Alzheimer's patients, some diabetics
>were fed chocolate, and doors to an oxygen tank room were glued shut.
>Mr. Bailey said one or two arrests were possible."