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Posted by BusMgr on Tue May 27 11:33:54 2008, in response to Re: Shortline on strike! Hiring SCABS!, posted by TruckerJohnT on Mon May 26 19:03:13 2008. Greyhound Lines certainly wanted its buses to get into and out of its terminals, just as the law permitted it to do so. It was the striking union members who would have been defying the law to block the company from doing so, and such an illegal action is really what constitutes the promotion of unlawfulness and violence. Greyhound Lines would never instruct its employees to go hit striking union members with its coaches. Unfortunately, in their zeal to inhibit the legal flow of Greyhound Lines traffic into and out of terminals, some union members became injured or killed (this seems to be similar to situations where pedestrians have darted out expectedly from the curb and into the path of motor vehicles . . . if the driver is otherwise driving safely, it is not the drivers fault).I remember many years ago riding buses into and out of the Voyageur bus terminal in Montreal. The unionized employees of Voyageur were on strike against the company, and had a picket line at the terminal's bus entrance. Police monitored the line. As each bus would approach, the picketers would walk across the entrance, blocking the bus, for about one minute. Then the police would instruct the picketers to step aside, and the bus would enter. In this case, the union members would have made their point, would have mildly inconvenienced the company and its passengers, but the company was able to continue in business as it had a right to do so, and everyone else was civil. If the Greyhound Lines union members would act with this type of civility, then no one would have to go to the emergency room. (In the end, the union effectively won its strike since the company essentially went out of business and most of its employees were let go. Voyageur at the time was virtually the only intercity bus company in Quebec, and provided substantial service in Ontario, but today it operates only between Ottawa and Montreal plus a few other short routes out of Ottawa, and is a subsidiary of Greyhound). Shortline has the right to hire replacement workers. Merely crying out about the "gall" to engage in a business practice that is legal is insufficient to turn the act into something illegal. Threatening violence in response to a legal act is simply unacceptable in a civilized society. |
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