What do you think of Scabs?

[cougjunkie]

Would you ever do it? become a scab? What if you didnt believe the issues that they were fighting for and you knew by crossing you may not be liked by your peers but you could make a lot more money?

Or are you completely against it just on pure principle.

[8ballrollin]

Originally Posted by cougjunkie

Would you ever do it? become a scab? What if you didnt believe the issues that they were fighting for and you knew by crossing you may not be liked by your peers but you could make a lot more money?

Or are you completely against it just on pure principle.

I was a scab once. While in HS, there was a strike with the local grocery workers union. I went in for an interview, didn't know it was a scab position (didn't even know there was a strike), they offered me a job (as a bag boy) and I took it. On the first day of the job this other bagger told me he was going to kick my ass. "But," he said, "since we played soccer together, I'm not going to". Anyway, I stayed on through the strike and eventually became part of the union. Once you’re in, its all goodness. Great wages and benefits. In the end, I stopped paying my dues because I was headed off for school.

Classic bag boy story: In CA they sell hard liquor in grocery stores. During the summer I was working until midnight. One night two huge, hard hitting, crazy looking dudes walked straight into the store, right for the liquor isle, put two bottles in their shirts and head for the door. The manger looks at me and says, "go stop him, while I call the cops." All the bag boys and I laugh and say, "We'll see you in collective bargaining."

[MikeWaters]

Once when I worked fast food I got something in the mail with an offer to join a food worker's union. For $1 per hour charge I could be part of the union, and they would represent me. So instead of making $3.80, I would be making $2.80. I passed. I don't think anyone in a 100 mile radius was in the union.

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by cougjunkie

Would you ever do it? become a scab? What if you didnt believe the issues that they were fighting for and you knew by crossing you may not be liked by your peers but you could make a lot more money?

Or are you completely against it just on pure principle.

No, I'd never do it. I pretty much hate scabs.

[8ballrollin]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Once when I worked fast food I got something in the mail with an offer to join a food worker's union. For $1 per hour charge I could be part of the union, and they would represent me. So instead of making $3.80, I would be making $2.80. I passed. I don't think anyone in a 100 mile radius was in the union.

i can't remember what our dues were, but we got paid really well...It was like $7.50 starting, and when I was a Jr in HS that was a lot of coin.

"Lucky's" I'm not even sure if Lucky's are still around. The store was ghetto. We'd always have to go and get all of the carts from the local apt complexes, because everyone would take them home, lol.

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Once when I worked fast food I got something in the mail with an offer to join a food worker's union. For $1 per hour charge I could be part of the union, and they would represent me. So instead of making $3.80, I would be making $2.80. I passed. I don't think anyone in a 100 mile radius was in the union.

Are you serious? That is a ridiculous dues percentage? Dues are usually much more reasonable than that. Was it some sort of freelance union?

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by 8ballrollin

i can't remember what our dues were, but we got paid really well...It was like $7.50 starting, and when I was a Jr in HS that was a lot of coin.

"Lucky's" I'm not even sure if Lucky's are still around. The store was ghetto. We'd always have to go and get all of the carts from the local apt complexes, because everyone would take them home, lol.

I remember Lucky's in the Bay Area