Trucker arrested for allegedly spitting on Shaw's striker

I'll cross a picket line if my driving job requires it. This union or that union is not working to protect my job. That's my responsibility. I'm sure that occassionally unions may have a legitimate complaint, but that doesn't give their strikers the right to interfere with me doing my job, which is not taking work away from the union.

 

Ive got sympathy... but it wasnt my company, or my job. I wasnt even doing anyones job but my own. Parking my trailer in storage for 4 days while I was home. No freight in, no freight out.

I had been on the road for 2 months... no way I wasnt going home.

Strike lasted 5 months... Those guys were sleeping in their own beds every night before, during and after the strike.

What should I have done? Stay away from home for 5 months. No way!

Union ended the strike... without a new contract... they both agreed to continue negotiations but return to work and the union agreed that not everyone would be hired back given the loss of business suffered by the company and the overall effects of the economy.

Way to go protecting them jobs. I would hate to have been on strike for 5 months only to be told that most of my buddies are going back to work but the union couldnt protect my job and partially contributed to losing the job.

 

Where I come from you would NOT cross even once. Call the law you say? The sherriff's dept. would fail to arrive in a timely manner. Oh and by the way I'm a non union O/O so don't bother bashing me as a union goon.

 

Assault is verbal, without contact...Battery is when there has been contact physically.

 

I'm not out to bash anybody. I just don't feel that union strikers should interfere with others doing their jobs, when those jobs are not protected by the striking union, or taking jobs away from the striking union. Why should my job as a common carrier driver, suffer or even possibly be jeopardized, because some grocery store employees are striking? I don't work for the grocery store, I'm not protected by the grocery store union, and I'm not working in that grocery store in place of union employees. Other than the delivery of the cargo, my job is unrelated to the union. I'm not crossing the picket line to violate union charters or contracts. I'm just doing my job. And yes, I will cross a picket line to do my job, cause if I don't there are thirty or forty guys lined up behind me who would be thrilled to take my job while I stroll on down the the job center looking for work again.

 

Its easy to type out on your keyboard. Quite another to look a man in the eyes and say I'm coming across.

 

It's not easy. And I am an admitted coward. But I will hold on to my job.

 

I know many who have said the same. I have yet to see one cross w/40 men standing in front of them. I grew up around and then worked in Hard Rock mines in Idaho, you may try but, you wouldn't cross those lines.

 

I have crossed several lines as a non-union driver. You, as a striker, cannot prohibit me from doing my job. Its not my fault that your union told you to strike.
I sympathize with the plight of the striker, but I got a job to do and they're in the way.

 

Unions are part of this country's problem. If you don't like your pay, benefits,etc. Grow up and find another job. Unions are why cars are overpriced.