Lenin in Detroit: JOA is state-monopoly mechanism 2001

[jf noonan]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Charles Brown wrote:
> 
> The UAW's move is important because it means Detroit
> Newspapers Inc., the company that produces, distributes and
> markets the dailies, again will be able to sell the
> newspapers in auto plants through coin-operated boxes. UAW
> members may also be more receptive now to subscribing to the
> papers in their homes. The UAW had banned the newspapers
> from its plants since 1995 in sympathy with the newspaper
> unions.

How does the UAW ban things from 'its' plants?  I didn't know it
had plants, I thought the bosses had the plants.

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Joseph Noonan
Houston, TX
jfn1 at msc.com