Quote:She HAD to cross a picket line? What she also did was weaken the bargaining chip the workers had. But before I assume too much, I just don't know why she HAD to cross and not have ability to walk away? Canada has more favorable labor laws and unions are fairly common in many areas. Not knowing what crossing a picket line could mean was naive. I don't condone the violence, but what alternatives are there? Boo? Hiss?

Just going to work? Didn't the strikers work there too? Her co workers? Friends? Did they not lean on each other? Depend on one another?

Just wondering.

You say you don't fault them for filling said vacancies. They are not vacancies, until there's a final resolution. Crossing a picket line is not filling a vacancy.

Remember replacement refs? Players?

 

No a first generation immigrant family did not have the luxury of missing a pay check to protest grievances, so yea she had to cross the line and go to work. She wasn't a member of the union.

 

regardless of someone being a union member or not, when you go from taking a stand to taking action against others because they don't stand with you (for whatever reason), you've become a mob not organized labor.

 

the people applying for jobs at UPS are not crossing picket lines, they're filling vacancies. The workers attempted to stage a protest and it didn't work, they hold no rights over that job.

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