I new someone would put me right and for that i thank you Wino.
Someone who crosses a picket line is a SCAB. He is a thief and no better than someone who robs a liquor store. He benefits from the work of the strikers without paying any of the dues. Its stealing, just like napster (for copyrighted works) and the thug with a gun and a ski mask.
Mmmmm inspired debate!
Did you ever think that a SCAB might have a family to feed or a mortgage payment to meet or just plainly not agree with the reasons for striking.
I am an individual and have the right to decide whether or not i work for my own personal reasons without having to worry what some "union goon" is going to do to me for expressing my right.
You are from the nation that shouts the loudest about freedoms in many forms and yet you are intimating that you would deny me the right to cross a picket line and therby express my freedom to work.
Get off the horse that rode into town with. You are giving MOL the very reasons to fight this battle with such comments and ideology.
Would you have called me a scab when that shop steward called a strike when he didn't like the tea in the canteen and i crossed it because it was one of the most monumemtally stupid reasons i have seen a union strike over or would you say "flaps you used your brains because it is really a stupid reasons to bring an important project to a halt without giving the canteen the opportunity to put things right".
Just listen to yourself "Thief, Gun, Robs, Thug, Stealing all in one paragraph all just because someone may have an opinion different to yours and wants to work.
During the miners strike in this country in the 80's an inocent taxi driver was killed by strikers or their supporters when a breeze block was droped from a height onto his car simply because he was taking a SCAB to work. This SCAB saw what was going on and decided that he wanted to work and support his family and pay to keep a roof over his head. He was a man doing what real men do, looking out for his own.
We have seen unions make stupid demands where employers have just said forget it and closed down. It happened at Bae in Kingston in the early 90's. They worked a 37.5hr week but demanded a 35hr week but still get paid for a 37.5 and work the extra 2.5hrs at over time rates. Six months later the factory closed down so everybody lost.
Any inspired comments on this scenario?
Once more for you Wino.
I hate unions but i can also see a reasons for them but only with restraint and this is something that I/BALPA are going to have to show MOL when 99.99% of his pilots, cabin crew, engineers etc etc join.
The only person who has backed into a corner is MOL and at least the pilots and I/BALPA are trying to talk and i commend them for that. This is unionism at its finest learn from it rather than hurling invectives at those who want to work.