[126761] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Fri May 28 12:39:36 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005281059030.23697@sambo.lan.thrifty.net>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:38:54 -0400
To: "Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <sam@themerritts.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 28, 2010, at 12:06 56PM, Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:
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> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
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>> The only people who can never strikes are public employees.
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> I know we've left the realm of NANOG, but come again?
I should have added the word "legally", and then for most jurisdictions.
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> Oakland teacher strike of 2010.
> various teacher strikes in the Chicago area over the years
> air traffic controllers in 1981
> postal workers in 1978
> 1968 Memphis garbagemen
> 1974 Baltimore police strike
> 1969 Cicero, Illinois police strike
> 1919 Boston police strike
> 1980 Chicago firefighters strike
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> sam
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--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
