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To: LindyBill who wrote (15069)	11/4/2003 12:29:29 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793623

Drudge is reporting CBS has cancelled Reagan... It goes to Showtime unedited... Article not yet printed.....

To: LindyBill who wrote (15069)	11/4/2003 2:29:18 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793623

The Unions should tell the Grocery Clerks to price individual insurance on their own. They would find that the costs are a GOOD DEAL more expensive than the few dollars more they are being asked to contribute. The Store Management should level with the Clerks and tell them exactly what the insurance is costing the Grocery Company for each family.......... The Clerks out on strike will NEVER make up the lost wages, and the Unions know it. The Unions aren't being straightforward. As a small company, we pay over $1150 for the 2 of us...per month...for a PPO insurance. My recent surgery cost over $11,500+ for 50 hours in the hospital, inc nearly 5 hours in operating room at $1890+/hr...no special problems afterwards.. Plus the anesthetic bill...nearly $1300 Plus the Surgeons bill...unknown so far, but he's not charged 10 arms and 2 legs before... The hospital bills should be audited I think, but they are probably so high to pay for those who freeload the system.

To: LindyBill who wrote (15069)	11/4/2003 5:18:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793623

A "Pro-Union" article from a source that is usually very anti-Union. <<told the union they were taking back something they had already given>> That seems to me an odd basis for drawing a line in the sand. Since when can parties no longer re-negotiate what has already been negotiated? Is it only management that cannot revisit old offers? What if the union were "taking back something they had already given?" If he's supporting the workers at his store because he cares about them and is worried about them, that's fine. He doesn't need to make up some paternalistic moral principle.