Jiggy, AMLU was offered a contract. AMLU didn't like said contract so they didn't sign it and didn't go to work. All your union speak mumbo jumbo aside, you quit. Period. I might feel different if games hadn't started and other people weren't doing your jobs, but that ain't so. And if a new contract is signed, those replacements will be fired/let go/terminated and you will be rehired.
WWTB didn't say that no 2006 grads were working, he said recent. If there are 2005 or 2004 grads working then what he said is true. That most certainly does change the situation. From false to true.
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Originally Posted by JIGGY
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.
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