EMAIL FROM DON MELVIN... STRIKE?

Colleagues!
I want to remind everyone if we strike we automatically collect unemployment. I seriously question the unions contention that to strike would be playing into managements hands. A live tour guide option on their buses is a valuable if not vital asset. They are counting on the impotence of our Union to have their cake and eat it too by cutting our salaries and creating other undignified chores so that they will profit in every way. 3 years ago with the threat of impending economic doom striking clearly wasn't an option. Today I believe it's our only option.Not 20 people with signs chanting silly slogans, rather active radical actions like blocking buses from going to work. Manning every ticket outlet harassing sales, And of course forcing the company to pay unemployment benefits indefinitely to some 300 workers. It would be a war and we could lose but the otion is NOT an option. Hit this company where it hurts in their wallet. Make it evening news night after night as we are carted off to jail. That surely would make Scotland think twice about Mark Mermelsteins methods and in the end just might save our jobs. Personally my demands are modest. A live tour guide option on the buses a modest raise and at least 35 hours a week. Have no illusion. The last 3 years broke all records for tourism in NYC. Any company that doesn't wish their employees to share in the good fortune is worthy of only contempt and I for one am anxious to impart that reality to them.

Don