1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

To Protest Hiring of Nonunion Help, Union Hires Nonunion Pickets

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by targus, Jul 20, 2010.

  1. targus

    targus New Member

    Joined:
    Feb 10, 2008
    Messages:
    8,459
    Likes Received:
    0
    "For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else," explains Vincente Garcia, a union representative who is supervising the picketing.

    So instead, the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage—$8.25 an hour—to walk picket lines

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288204575362763101099660.html

    So the union hires SCABS?

    This sounds like it could be a Saturday Night Live skit. :laugh:
     
  2. abcgrad94

    abcgrad94 Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 12, 2007
    Messages:
    5,533
    Likes Received:
    0
    Faith:
    Baptist
    This is too funny. I think you should have put it in the humor forum!
     
  3. billwald

    billwald New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2000
    Messages:
    11,414
    Likes Received:
    2
    Didn't know there was a picketer's union. They can't hire from a union that doesn't exist. Maybe a BaptistBoard member in the DC area would like to do their civic and Christian duty to assist them in organizing.
     
  4. rbell

    rbell Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 16, 2006
    Messages:
    11,103
    Likes Received:
    0
    OK, I'm confused. So does the union then hire union goons to rough up the non-union folks who are picketing for the union people?
     
  5. rbell

    rbell Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 16, 2006
    Messages:
    11,103
    Likes Received:
    0
    The "union bible" must leave out the "thou shalt not covet" command...
     
  6. billwald

    billwald New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2000
    Messages:
    11,414
    Likes Received:
    2
    The Baptist Bible added "All I want is my fair share and a little bit of yours?"
     
  7. rbell

    rbell Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 16, 2006
    Messages:
    11,103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Huh??

    Since when did the Democrats start printing Bibles?
     
  8. sag38

    sag38 Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2008
    Messages:
    4,395
    Likes Received:
    2
    What a bunch of hypocritical morons!!!!
     
  9. targus

    targus New Member

    Joined:
    Feb 10, 2008
    Messages:
    8,459
    Likes Received:
    0
    I just love how our resident union defender is dodging the issue ! :laugh:
     
  10. billwald

    billwald New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2000
    Messages:
    11,414
    Likes Received:
    2
    The issue is that there is no local for picketers and no union picketers for anyone to hire.
     
  11. targus

    targus New Member

    Joined:
    Feb 10, 2008
    Messages:
    8,459
    Likes Received:
    0
    Why are non-union workers doing a union worker's job?

    Your dodge is transparent.
     
  12. just-want-peace

    just-want-peace Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2002
    Messages:
    7,727
    Likes Received:
    873
    Faith:
    Baptist
    WOW!!!!!!
    Guess the picketers can find parking places that the union members can't, huh?
    Or maybe the members figure that this is a good expenditure of their union funds so they won't even have to show up??? (They also get out of carrying those old heavy signs and all that walking!!??)

    Kinda hard to figure that if these members are serious about this, that they would at least have the decency to hire some bona-fide union members (of SOME union) to keep the vigil, rather than go "outside" for help

    Maybe the rank & file aren't as radical as the gesta--- er-a-a- leaders!:smilewinkgrin:
     
  13. billwald

    billwald New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2000
    Messages:
    11,414
    Likes Received:
    2
    Apparently you scabs don't understand the basis of union organization. (Traditionally) The AFofL organizes on the basis of a trade or skill like plumber or carpenter.. There is no union for the trade of picketing. The CIO organizes all the employees of one shop or factory on the basis of all being employed by the same company.

    http://www.hireahelper.com/day-labor/washington_dc/

    Day labor companies. None of them seem to be unionized. If there are no unionized picketers in DC then no one can hire unionized picketers in DC. I thought that right wing baptists were big on deductive logic.

    A logical union for day workers is the SEIU
    http://www.seiu.org/

    Some interested Baptist in that area could contact SEIU and

    DC Jobs with Justice at

    http://www.dcjwj.org/node/334

    and volunteer to be an organizer.

    When outsiders don't care, people can organize on their own as the United Farm Workers did. See

    http://www.ufw.org/

    It took a long campaign to get any justice for farm workers. see
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farm_Workers

    Note

    >The union publicly adopted the principles of non-violence championed by Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
     
  14. targus

    targus New Member

    Joined:
    Feb 10, 2008
    Messages:
    8,459
    Likes Received:
    0
    Our resident union apologist is really spinning here. :laugh:
     
  15. Revmitchell

    Revmitchell Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2006
    Messages:
    52,013
    Likes Received:
    3,649
    Faith:
    Baptist

    Hey everyone! Did you know you were a scab? aww...now you have gone and hurt our feelings bill. :flower:
     
  16. Bob Alkire

    Bob Alkire New Member

    Joined:
    Mar 23, 2001
    Messages:
    3,134
    Likes Received:
    1
    Because union workers are to lazy to do their own.
     
  17. padredurand

    padredurand Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 25, 2004
    Messages:
    4,541
    Likes Received:
    102
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Doesn't it make sense for the person with the grievance to walk their own picket line? You'd think the union members would be interested enough to show up for their own strike.

    Let's start by having the striking union members charter a bus from a union shop to shuttle them to the strike site? That would take care of the parking problem and benefit the union shop with the bus service.
     
  18. billwald

    billwald New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2000
    Messages:
    11,414
    Likes Received:
    2
    Nothing personal, see #4 from dictionary.com The word has no moral implications. Some scabs are good, some bad.

    noun
    1.
    the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.
    2.
    Veterinary Pathology . a mangy disease in animals, esp. sheep; scabies. Compare itch ( def. 10 ) .
    3.
    Plant Pathology .
    a.
    a disease of plants characterized by crustlike lesions on the affected parts and caused by a fungus or bacterium.
    b.
    one of these crustlike lesions.
    4.
    a worker who refuses to join a labor union or to participate in a union strike, who takes a striking worker's place on the job, or the like.
     
  19. targus

    targus New Member

    Joined:
    Feb 10, 2008
    Messages:
    8,459
    Likes Received:
    0
    Well then, since these picketers are taking the union members place on the picket line then...

    THE UNION HIRED SCABS !!! :laugh: :thumbsup:
     
  20. just-want-peace

    just-want-peace Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2002
    Messages:
    7,727
    Likes Received:
    873
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Any way you try to slice it, this is a slap to the intrinsic lack of integrity in the modern union!

    Just like so many state "boards", they have essentially outlived their usefulness and have become more self-perpetuating than member serving!

    Same as DHEC, EPA, DOE, etc, etc, etc on the federal level.:BangHead:
     
Loading...