What was the problem with Jersey? What is an exit number? Why did the area codes matter at all? Because they were in seperate books? I imagine you just had a big stack of books on your desk.
Interesting inside baseball. I notice Unions sometimes carry the seeds of their own destruction--protecting their turf instead of expanding their membership. I'll never forget an article I read about union members torpedoing a health care plan because it would mean everyone would get better benefits without being in a union and the benefits unions had sacrificed wages for would be compartatively less. It's an impossible subject to bring up among progressives, because we depend on union organizing and don't want to talk shit about the single best counter to capital.