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299. Are you suggesting I am "someone who justifies violence"?

If you are, you're out of line, pal. I have only posted a few times in this thread and nowhere do I justify violence or property damage as a proper tactic.

You put a sentence in quotes. It is nothing I wrote, so again you are using a non-sequiter.

Look...the fact that a car got vandalized is not a good thing. I don't advocate violence or destruction of property in any way, shape or form. But the fact remains that ANYONE who crosses a picket line to do work at a company not being done by striking workers IS A SCAB, plain and simple.

The point you are failing to even recognize - one that has been made numerous times in various ways - is that when a strike occurs it is of paramount importance that the entire workforce be part of it. Most people understand this simple concept. To argue that it is OK for someone to cross a picket line demonstrates that you do not understand the first thing about what it means to be in a union.

The fact is, the laws, particularly in the right-to-work states, are on the side of the employer, NOT the employee.

I live in Florida, one of the least unionized states in the country. I worked for a trucking company of about 120 employees, 85 or so of whom were drivers. A collective bargaining agreement would DRASTICALLY help those drivers. If those drivers decided to vote for a union the owner would fire them en masse and lock them out, plain and simple. The only recourse would be to picket the front gate. A likely scenario then would be other drivers and replacement workers trying to cross that picket line and they would be blocked from doing so. If that happened the local police department would be called immediately and I guarantee you the picketers would be arrested and taken to jail, thus crushing the picket and making the lockout successful.

This is the reality of how things are in right-to-work states. The workers know they have little to no chance of being able to organize because the laws and law enforcement are on the side of the company.

If every company that might be or should be unionized honestly did things in the best interest of their workforce, then unions would not be needed. But the fact is, if corporations are people, they are psychopaths. They don't do things in the interest of their workers. They do things in the interest of the quarterly bottom line.