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- From: kimes@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Kit Kimes@AT&T/NCR)
- Subject: Re: PATRONIZE Cineplex Odeon (WAS: Re: Boycott Cineplex Odeon)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:03:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.180336.14640@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- References: <By1H99.sH@portal.hq.videocart.com>
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- From article <By1H99.sH@portal.hq.videocart.com>, by (Karl Denninger):
-
- > In article <1992Nov20.012528.24773@gagme.chi.il.us> (Jerry Greenwood) writes:
- >
- >>CINEPLEX ODEON Corporation of Toronto Canada is currently engaged in
- >>attempting to destroy over 300 families in the Chicagoland area. Members
- >>of the Motion Picture Projectionists Union Local 110 of Chicago have been
- >>locked out of their jobs as of November 8th, 1992, at midnight.
- >
- > Of course, if I remember the figures correctly, the union thought that they
- > should get paid $85.00/hour/movie screen while the movies were running.
- > Never mind that it only takes one projectionist to run a screen even if he
- > or she is monitoring the movie all the time, and in a pinch one
- > projectionist can handle several screens.
- >
- I think only in Chicago is the projectionist union made up of a high
- percentage of characters associated with the mob. That is why it was
- such a high paying job (and why very few ordinary citizens ever got a
- chance at the job). I think Cineplex Odeon is showing a great deal
- of courage at taking the stand they did and hope they succeed.
-
- Kit Kimes
- AT&T Bell Labs (under contract to NCR)
- Naperville, IL
- ...!att!iwcs!kimes (kimes@iwcs.att.com)
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