Return-Path: <sentto-279987-5170-1029242394-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18267 invoked by uid 510); 13 Aug 2002 12:38:28 -0000 Received: from n34.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.102) by all.net with SMTP; 13 Aug 2002 12:38:28 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-5170-1029242394-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.97] by n34.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Aug 2002 12:39:54 -0000 X-Sender: yangyun@metacrawler.com X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 13 Aug 2002 12:39:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 17711 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2002 12:39:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Aug 2002 12:39:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n2.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.75) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Aug 2002 12:39:51 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.159] by n2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Aug 2002 12:39:51 -0000 To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <ajaumm+3jne@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "televr" <yangyun@metacrawler.com> X-Originating-IP: 24.156.93.236 X-Yahoo-Profile: televr Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:39:50 -0000 Subject: [iwar] Locked-out workers sabotage cable network Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: More Videotron cable lines cut - 100,000 still without cable or Internet Monday, August 12, 2002 MONTREAL (Canadian Press) - Videotron work crews discovered a new batch of severed cable lines as a three-month strike-lockout by 2,200 Videotron employees entered its third month. The fibreoptic cable-TV and high-speed Internet lines were cut in ten locations across Quebec late Sunday and early Monday as Videotron completed repairs on lines that were severed last week. Some 100,000 subscribers were still without cable or Internet service Monday, including 50,000 people in the Montreal region. Last week, about half of Videotron's 1.5 million customers lost cable and Internet signals after lines were cut across the province in what the company called acts of vandalism. Also on Monday, police made the first arrest in the bitter labour dispute, but the unidentified suspect was not charged with cutting cable lines. The locked-out Videotron employee, nabbed by Montreal police, was arrested and charged with mischief after a bus carrying replacement workers had a window smashed. Videotron, Quebec's largest cable company, said there have been 246 acts of sabotage against cable lines since workers walked off the job May 8 and were subsequently locked out by the company. Videotron says the service disruptions have cost them approximately $20 million. A $50,000 reward was posted by the company last week for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people responsible for damaging the company's network of 27,000 kilometres of coaxial cable and 7,000 kilometres of fibreoptic lines. Police would not say whether a tip from the public led to Monday's arrest. Videotron technicians, office workers and call-centre employees went on strike in May when the company transferred 646 installation and maintenance jobs to Entourage Solutions Inc. © Copyright 2002 The Canadian Press ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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