fight on picket line

I could post a video showing the contractors that have come from as far away as 70 miles to do work where local people are unemployed but that doesn't seem to work either. The big corporation that owns this chain of supermarkets and builds using Amish workers in suburban areas doesn't care about area workers and shoppers, only their cash to spend in their stores. The area where this took place was not an Amish area. The area workers and shoppers have gas bills, electric bills, school taxes, Health coverage bills and other expenses that Amish don't. How do we compete against that? Unfortunately no matter what a Union posts there will always be a negative spin. Sometimes after months of trying to plead your case and getting stonewalled you just need a little levity with no harm done, but I'm sure you'll have a problem with that too.
Maybe a Union guy holding a cute kitten would work.
Probably not!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• UNION FIGHT
• PICKET LINE
• WORKERS RIGHTS

[s46d45m17]

My dad is in a walker, so disrespectful.

[PhillyBAC1]

@s46d45m17 My father is too. Lighten up Francis!!

[madhatter0110]

For labor unions to once again be effective, anyone in leadership should be required to work a full-time job and belong to the union they represent AND all union positions be unpaid with NO DUES COLLECTED from anyone. The millions of dollars unions suck out of their members is the primary motive instead of workers' interests.

[PhillyBAC1]

@madhatter0110 CLUELESS!!

[rrhynes]

@nktank84 Well, my dad joined the union in the 50s when every tradesman belonged to a union. He didn't have any choice. The union is dead, done, over with. It is as conceptually and ethically corrupt as just about ever other institution.

[mess9u2]

By the way I hate union scabs and they are scabs!!!

[mess9u2]

I really hope that guy use a walker because if not. I'D PUT HIM USING ONE!

[PhillyBAC1]

@rrhynes You've obviously never walked a picket line and never will, so to try to explain to you the experience would be pointless but thanks for the comment.

[rrhynes]

@nktank84 I do know some of the Verizon people sure showed the world how pathetic and childish they were when they were protesting their plight. Cussing, yelling, intimidating and blocking traffic isn't respectable.

[rrhynes]

@nktank84 I am aware of the violence that certain companies used against men trying to unionize.....70 to 80 years ago. However, we don't live in those times and the men walking the picket line in this video don't face those threats. More importantly, the doucebag in this video is hardly someone my father would have respected. This entire video taints the respectability of a union line.

[nktank84]

@FreedomLover1973 Exactly what are we doing to America? I'm a Union Boilermaker by the way, How exactly can a person be whiny and still be considered a thug? I bet ya blam outsourcing on unions eh? Even though most that go overseas are non-union jobs in the first place. I bet you blame everything bad in general on unions.lol.

[nktank84]

@rrhynes You act like walking the picket line is a bad thing, but that's how Americans achieved the working conditions and standard of living. You should be thankful that so many men walked the line like these men are doing, not bashing them. Union men were much more often on the recieving end of the violence. You should try reading some history on what union men went through to get the things you take for granted every day.

[nktank84]

@rrhynes My dad walked the picket line many times in the 70s and 80s, as did my grandpa, grandma, mom, and me (I was in her belly). They did it because they had to fight for every cent they got. THIS IS HOW WE GOT A 40 HOUR WORK WEEK AND OVERTIME AND SAFETY REGULATIONS!