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Re: Shortline on strike! Hiring SCABS! |
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Posted by BusMgr on Mon May 26 12:42:15 2008, in response to Re: Shortline on strike! Hiring SCABS!, posted by caseyjim on Mon May 26 07:17:39 2008. [Shortline] deserves anything they get for hiring these "REPLACEMENT" workers, scabs! SOLIDARITY!!!!!!The idea of Shortline hiring scabs to drive the buses is a good way of inviting violence, which seems to be the only effective way left for the average working joe to redress his or her grievances since nothing else will get the higher ups' attention. It is virtually unheard of for modern management to engage in unlawful violence and, for the most part, replacement workers are looking only to complete the jobs to which they were assigned. Virtually all unlawful violence in these types of disagreements is brought on by striking union members. To encourage union members to engage in such violence (e.g., "[Shortline] deserves anything they get....") is to throw civility and law out the window and, in effect, engage in extortion. If Shortline acts within the law (and regardless of whether or not some people "like" it or not, the law is what it is), and the union members acts outside the law, it becomes quite clear which side will have taken the high road, and which side deserves to lose their jobs and get sent to jail. On the other hand, if the union members want to abide by the law, and act civilly, then they will exert lawful economic pressure by withholding their labor, picketing, etc., and if in fact Shortline is economically exploiting that workforce, the company will be unable to hire replacement workers in sufficient numbers; either the contract offer will go up or the company will go under. |
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