anyone ever had to cross a picket line in your truck ?

If you want to work for free, if you are Ok with being terminated for no reason at all, if you like to pay for your health insurance,if you like to sit around the whole weekend at a truck stop for free, If you think the company likes you,( BTW they dont ) because you do favors....NOT MY PROBLEM..

 

Who's typing ?? 😂😂 I'm stopping here, we dont need the other Dog to shut this thread down..

 

I haven't yet been in the position to cross a picket line, but I would if it arose.

Look, I understand that workers strike for whatever reason. However, their strike is not going to change my job. I'm not involved in their strike in any way, shape, or form. Therefore, I do not believe they have the right to stop me from doing my job. And that job is to either pick up, or deliver freight. The pickets are there to stop "scabs" from coming in and doing the jobs normally done by the strikers. Rarely if ever are the strikers drivers. I'm not doing a job that would be done by a striking employee in normal circumstances, therefore I am not a "scab". Just a regular joe trying to do his job.

 

We hauled equipment out of plant that owners sold after telling the Employees go on strike and no jobs , strikers said it would never happen and believed they had the upper hand even as the equipment was moved out of the factory.

 

I used to live in a house with a white picket fence around it had to cross it everyday or open the gate!

 

I crossed a picket line back in 1994 in the Chicagoland area delivering equipment to a job site. The brick layers local was trying to shut down a scab outfit treading on their territory. Just said sorry guys, I've got a job to do. They wrote down my companies info and that was it and I never heard a single word from anyone about my actions.

 

Picketers mainly target the cars coming in and leaving the facility.If Tyson was to go on strike my brother would probably disown me if I was a scab there.I never would reguardless. anyway.

 

I was union and my employer said that if I didn't want to cross a certain picket line, the shipper would come out to a restaurant and take my truck and load it while I waited. It was raining when he went to load. It quit raining during loading, but he left the wipers running.
I got the truck back with rubber streaked across the windshield.

 

I was nonunion hauling used beer bottles from a distributor that was on strike. It was slow going inching through the picket line, but I was more concerned about the day when the strike was over and I would have to haul used bottles from their union employees. After a year on strike, a vote was supervised by Dept. of Labor. Many union strikers had found other jobs and were not eligible to vote. The scabs were eligible, and the distributor is non-union to this day.

 

I was union in 1970 when Chicago drivers wanted a nickle more than the National Agreement that had been settled. All my freight came through Chicago, and my assigned tractor was trapped behind the picket line. My unemployment was denied because if Chicago got more, the National could be renegotiated to my benefit. I won't say how I got tangled up in it, but I'm still shaking. Months later, my unemployment came through when I no longer needed it. Had I been smarter, I would have turned in a referral card to my non-Chicago local the day I was laid off due to the strike. Eventually, I asked for referral and they found a job for me as a driver on construction sites.