On Mon, 3 Apr 1995, Michael Saint-Onge wrote:
>
> This is distressing news. I'd like to think that we could count on our
> colleagues boycotting this library and the job that will be offered by
> the contractor, but someone will inevitably take this job. This
> individual (or probably _these individuals_) fail to see that by taking
> these jobs they put us all at risk. We need a union!
>
> Michael Saint-Onge
> Coudert Brothers
> San Francisco
>
At the risk of sounding like I support the B&M decision (I don't
so PLEASE don't flame me in return) but having worked as a contractor for
five years I feel compelled to speak up. Whatever decision is made within
the law firm community in response to this decision please don't blame or
cast aspersions on the people who win the contract or who work on the
contract. Having been there I can't stress enough the importance of
remembering that the decision to award a contract (to "outsource") is the
decision of B&M not the people who win the contract. Most important,
please don't deny them, if the people hired are librarians (my gut
feeling is that they won't be), the same courtesy and support (ILL for
example) that you would any other professional simply because of a
desire to punish the "chowderheaded" decision of the firm.
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