Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 20:10:39 -0400
From: Nigel.Allen@f438.n250.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Nigel Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Demand U.S. Sprint Allow Unionization
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
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ANEWS echo (activist/alternative news) -- NDA]

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 From: Harel Barzilai <cmcl2!math.cornell.edu!harelb>

Note: IGC is the nonprofit Institute for Global Communications which
runs the PeaceNet and EcoNet networks.  If you are a Sprint customer
-- either SprintNet/TeleNet packet switching network for electronic
mail, OR for long- distance telephone and fax use -- please write them
as well! -- Harel

This is from PeaceNet's "labor.organize" -- there are over a dozen
"labor.*" conferences now part of the newly created LaborNet --
another Net which IGC is not running directly but rather providing
support for them to run by themselves. I am particularly interested in
connecting up my (and other) campuses' grad-student unionization
activsts with LaborNet -- Harel

March 23, 1992

Mr. William T. Esry
Chairman and Chief Executive Office
Sprint Corp.
P.O. Box 11315
Kansas City, MO 64112

Dear Mr. Esrey,

 The Institute for Global Communciations has joined the Sprint
Concerned Customer Association because we have learned that you are
unwilling to allow your employees to attempt to organize a union.

 We believe that the quality and reliability of our data
communications service depends on highly trained and dedicated
employees who function in a working environment of fairness and
respect.

 We are aware that Sprint employees are organizing a union to ensure
that they have a voice in setting decent working conditions, income
levels, benefits and personnel policies. We agree that such employee
participation and democracy in the workplace can greatly enhance both
employee productivity and the marketability of Sprint's product.

 We support this employee effort and call on Sprint management to
recognize the right of its employees to organize a union without
company interference. We urge the company to adopt a reasonable code-
of-conduct that will allow Sprint employees themselves to decide
whether they want to elect a union to represent themselves.

 Specifically we urge the company to remain neutral in any organi-
zational campaign and not encourage workers to oppose unionization. We
also call on Sprint to recognize the union that can prove its majority
support as the exclusive collective bargaining representative through
a show of union representation cards signed by a majority of
employees.

 As a customer of Sprint's services, I look forward to hearing from
you concerning the action plan to take in this regard.

  Sincerely,

   Geoff Sears, Executive Director Institute for Global Communications

  cc: Sprint Concerned Customers Association
      501 3rd Street, N.W.
      Washington, DC 20001 


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