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Originally Posted by Kaliix
WWTB stated "By the way, how come the AMLU guys are calling the recent pro school graduates 'scabs'?"
I believe the term recent to subjective and could mean any pro-school grads from 2005 or 2004. You might be able to stretch it to 2003 depending on how one defines recent.
A couple of questions:
1) How can you guys (you being AMLU members) be on strike? You don't have a contract. Therefore, you don't have a job. You were offered a contract and refused it. It seems to me like you guys quit...
2) If you don't have a contract, refused the last contract you were offered, and essentially quit, how are the umpires who are filling the positions you left open scabs?
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This really isn't worth responding to. Nonetheless...
It is becoming more and more appear ant that most people don't understand the way collective bargaining as a union takes place. The whole point is that the union will choose to strike vs. work without an acceptable contract. This is, essentially the point of the union, as unions may strike and are afforded certain legal protections in doing so. Each AMLU umpire DID NOT "walk out" or "refuse" a job in the minor leagues. Umpires, like players are contracted, both as individuals and as a union. Without a working contract, they don't work. The jobs are still theirs (they haven't been locked out or fired) there simply isn't an agreement in place to allow them to work.
p.s. "stretching" the definition of recent to even 2003 doesn't change any of the facts in this situation.