Projo Rampage and Carlos Pacheco

A bloody tragedy at the Providence Journal Production

    Facility last Saturday. All I know about the horror is what I read

    in the newspapers. But something about the  " maniac " killer, Carlos

    Pacheco does not make much sense: He  was under pressure to join the

    Teamsters Union - famous for gangster tactics - but " all employees who

    are not members must pay 92 percent of union dues, as Pacheco had done"

    ( Boston Globe, June 11, page B-5 ) .

               Why not join the union if you are paying for its " protection "

    -dubious or real ? Was it against Pacheco's Catholic faith to join a

    union where one might be needed ? Against his moral principles  ? Against

    his own economic interests ?

              Question : Was Carlos Pacheco -in fact - being pressured NOT

    to join the union by individuals in management ?

                 The Belo Corporation has no great love for unions -in case

    you don't know.

                 But none of this was equal to  crime of murder.