DoinTime
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Scabbing is crossing a picket line.
Scabbing is performing struck work. Plain and simple.
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Scabbing is crossing a picket line.
DoinTime said:Scabbing is performing struck work. Plain and simple.
Donsa320 said:Unless you are in the same union you cannot honor the other's picket line if you have a contract to work. That is a secondary boycott, forbidden by Taft Hartley. The company would get an injunction against it in a heart beat. When Lorenzo did not do that, in the case of Eastern, then you knew he did not want the pilots back. In any case, nobody won that one anyway, IMHO.
~DC
surplus1 said:Small technicality -- Taft Hartley does not apply. The NWA situation is under the RLA (Railway Labor Act). In certain circumstances a sympathy strike is permissable, in others not. The law is not cut and dry but very complex.
The EAL pilot strike was a sympathy strike in support of the IAM.
In the APA case, wich was not a strike, the judge's ruling was a somewhat draconian decision written by a man whose own words made it patently clear that his personal attitude towards labor unions and labor disputes was the purpose of the decision. If you read the decision it is not hard to see that. Nevertheless, it was upheld. Federal judges seldom rule in favor of labor, which has little to do with facts and a lot to do with politics.
In any case, it is hightly improbable that the NWA pilots will honor the mechanics strike. I predict the pilots will fly if the mechanics strike, picket line or not, they will cross it. ALPA will not go to court to try and prove it can strike in sympathy.
The company's objective in this case is to break the AMFA. They will probably succeed.
cfm56-7b said:why are the pilots the first one's to take concessions?
100LL... Again! said:If NW already has this agreement in place with outside vendors, then that is not crossing a picket line. You would, perhaps, like him to lose his job to protect the NW mechanic's bargaining position?