From: urkastig@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Robert Kastigar)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.ads
Subject: Labor Union BBS List
Date: 23 Nov 92 03:37:23 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network


                 SoliNet - LaborChat

  An echo-network of dial-in Bulletin Board systems operated
        by members of the organized labor community. 

The CURRENT list of SoliNet Participants.
ALL are 24-hour operation, as far as I know.

HUB: Pipefitters Local 533 - Kansas City, Missouri (816) 737-3406
	System Operator: Gary Goodman
	(816) 737-3406, 2400 baud, maybe higher
	(816) 737-5257, 9600 baud

Node: IUE International - Secacus, New Jersey (201) 223-0485 
	International Union of Electronic Wokrers
	System Operator & NET ADMINISTRATOR: Mike Lostutter

Node: IBEW Local 1220 - Rosemont (Chicago area), IL (708) 292-1223
	International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
	System Operator: Bob Kastigar
	300/1200/2400 Baud

Node: IAFF Fireline, White Plains, NY (914) 684-0188
	International Association of Firefighters
	System Operator: Duncan Macrae
	Not sure about the baud rate. Try 9600, step down
	to 2400 if it doesn't work!

Node: Salt City Caverns, IBT Local 1149, Syracuse NY (315) 695-3077
	International Brotherhood of Teamsters
	System Operator: Steve Richmond
	Not sure about the baud rate. Try 9600, step down
	to 2400 if it doesn't work!

Node: IAFF Fireline, Albany, NY (518) 436-8143
	System Operator:
	Not sure about the buad rate. Try 9600, step down 
	to 2400 if it doesn't work!

Node: UWUA, Melrose (Boston area), Mass (617) 662-4214
	Sysop: Leo Macgillivray

Current as of August, 1992

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        POTENTIAL future participants in LaborChat.  

The following dial-in Bulletin Board systems are also operated
by local labor unions or associated organizations.  However, as
of August, 1992 they do not yet carry the SoliNet LaborChat echo
mail, usually for technical reasons.  

San Diego Labor Council, San Diego, California (619) 283-6672
	System Operator: Sue Schaffner

NABET International, Chicago, IL (312) 427-5454
(National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians)
	System Operator: Bill Bryan IST

The Meany Center Labor Line, Washington DC area (301) 431-0534
	System Operator: Chuck Hodell

AFSCME (East Coast) (202) 429-1118
(Association of Federal, State, and Municipal Employees)
	System Operator: Don Holstrum

NABET Local 43 (Detroit) (313) 424-8585
	System Operator:  ?

The Broun Board, Silver Springs, MD. (703) 979-1154
	TNG (The Newspaper Guild)
	System Operator: James Griffin/Eric Geist

If you know of any other Bulletin Board systems associated with
the labor movement that are not on this list PLEASE LEAVE A NOTE
OR COMMENT!  

You can leave me E-Mail at urkastig@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu.

Each of the BBS's on this "Potential" list has been contacted and
invited to join in SoliNet.  Union BBS Users are encouraged to call
one of these labor-associated BBS's.  By the time you call, they
may be associated with SoliNet.  If they aren't, leave a message
to the sysop requesting that you be entered into the BBS, AND ASK
THEM TO CONSIDER JOINING THE SOLINET LABOR NETWORK!


Bob Kastigar, Sysop, IBEW Local 1220 BBS Chicago
Internet:  urkastig@uxa.ecu.bgu.edu