[Ducati] RE: Unions and dodgy old memory files

[Bruce Bellm]

FWIW, I didn't doubt that the basic story was correct. I also didn't think 
Mike was challenging your veracity. I took it that he was looking for more 
specific info based on what you had provided. He couldn't find it. You did. 
Good work. Best wishes to your dad. Glad he's still in your life.

bruce19
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Ginter" <ronginter at rogers.com>
To: <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:20 AM
Subject: [Ducati] RE: Unions and dodgy old memory files


> At the risk of belabouring the point, after Mike's inability to find  any 
> reference to the strike I mentioned in relation to my father's  bad union 
> experience, and the later gentle suggestion by Bruce that  it may be my 
> memory that is the problem, I began to doubt myself.   After an hour of 
> Googling on my own, I found the site for "Library  and Archives Canada", 
> which references a strike at General Motors in  Windsor Ontario (where my 
> father worked) in December of 1964.  I  don't have any particulars, 
> because I couldn't get into the textual  files.  The file was marked as 
> "locked" and the reason was "legal".
>
> So I'm not delusional after all. <g>  Woo-hoo!
>
> Now for a clever segue (a word which derives from Italian BTW):
>
> As a result of my father's experience, I was inspired to get a good 
> education and become self-employed, thus avoiding unions entirely,  and 
> resulting in (here comes the Ducati content) my current ownership  of two 
> fine Italian steeds, and the subsequent acquaintance of the  fine folks 
> who populate this discussion board.
>
> And for the record, my poor old Pappy is now 95 years old, nearly  blind 
> and deaf in a nursing home in Leamington Ontario.  He can still  walk, and 
> his mind is amazingly sharp.  He still asks for a ride on  the bike every 
> time I visit him. ;-)  He put in 30 years at GM, and  has now been retired 
> for 30 years.  I'd say he has got his money's  worth out of those 
> hard-fought union benefits, eh?
>
> ...Ron
>
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