BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]:
This is a very very impressive and brave piece of journalism. Thanks, Joyce Marcel!
People involved speak for themselves, and this group of articles lets readers fill in the bigger complicated picture, and come to their own conclusion, or more likely their own set of further questions.
Perhaps we learn something, which is what we want from journalism. I for one, would like to see further investigation into the labor/management relations problems that continue at the co-op.
I don't think of Richard Gagnon as a victim of these problems, and it does not sound like he does, either. Nor do I think of management as culpable for murder. Certainly not!
But one has to wonder why that originally egalitarian environment would produce a union movement. That does seem like a huge question for and about management, especially in the human resources department.
Obviously, there is a huge disconnect. Is the co-op's board of directors looking into this issue? I am a shareholder, and I'd like to know that this is not being swept under the rug!