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Who's The Winner In A Strike?
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<blockquote data-quote="UPS Lifer" data-source="post: 254320" data-attributes="member: 9789"><p><strong>Area 43,</strong> </p><p>I am not sure why this has issue is so hot (crossing a picket line) when the ballots have not been sent out yet!!! BUT....that is OK, since you brought it up I have to strongly agree with you on this. </p><p></p><p>I may have spent most of my years as a mgmt person but I was a Teamster for 7 years. I have been on both sides of the picket line. I never voted to strike but I held that picket sign for $35 a week strike pay. After 2 weeks, I went to work for a neighbor and held my sign at my posted time. I did what I had to do. It never crossed my mind to scab. I was in downtown LA at the time and one of the drivers from our center who had just come back from disability bad mouthed the rest of the drivers for voting down the contract! That person was never treated the same again and rightly so! </p><p></p><p>Each person that is eligible to vote needs to make a personal decision based on what is important to them. No one should be intimidated to vote one way or the other. </p><p></p><p>This has already become a very heated topic and in the future, we all need to show respect for each other and realize that everyone is a sum of their experiences and those experiences help shape us to be the human beings we are. If we remember this, we can contiue to have productive and thought provoking conversations to help others make informative decisions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UPS Lifer, post: 254320, member: 9789"] [B]Area 43,[/B] I am not sure why this has issue is so hot (crossing a picket line) when the ballots have not been sent out yet!!! BUT....that is OK, since you brought it up I have to strongly agree with you on this. I may have spent most of my years as a mgmt person but I was a Teamster for 7 years. I have been on both sides of the picket line. I never voted to strike but I held that picket sign for $35 a week strike pay. After 2 weeks, I went to work for a neighbor and held my sign at my posted time. I did what I had to do. It never crossed my mind to scab. I was in downtown LA at the time and one of the drivers from our center who had just come back from disability bad mouthed the rest of the drivers for voting down the contract! That person was never treated the same again and rightly so! Each person that is eligible to vote needs to make a personal decision based on what is important to them. No one should be intimidated to vote one way or the other. This has already become a very heated topic and in the future, we all need to show respect for each other and realize that everyone is a sum of their experiences and those experiences help shape us to be the human beings we are. If we remember this, we can contiue to have productive and thought provoking conversations to help others make informative decisions. [/QUOTE]
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