Your union workers were given a contract which they didn't like so they didn't show up for work. You call it a strike, I say they quit because they don't have a contract. The semantics don't matter because the result is the same, they had a job and didn't show up for work.
The union doesn't give a crap about anyone but themselves. You want to strike/quit for better pay, fine. But everyone else has a right to earn as much money as they can to pay their bills, and feed and cloth their families. Who are you or anyone in the union to tell anyone where they can or can't work. If the work is available, it is because the union members aren't there to do the job.
Baseball wasn't going to stop being played because the union didn't show up for work. You want other umpires to support your cause but if baseball wasn't being played, what about all the other people you would be screwing out of a days pay. The ticket takers, concession stand workers, grounds crew and everyone else associated with the game would be out of work if the games didn't go on. What about them? Would you care that those people who likely live paycheck to paycheck couldn't make rent or buy food. What about their spouses and children? Do you care about them?
The answer is a big fat NO! If AMLU cared about any of them, their asses would be on the field making the calls. Don't give me rhetoric, show me by your actions. Talk means nothing when people aren't getting paid.
You call the replacement umpires scabs. I say they are filling a need that AMLU left open so everyone associated with minor league baseball can keep their job and get paid.
AMLU has a right to strike and try and get better pay and wages. AMLU has a right to work and make a living but so does everyone else. For the union to expect other workers, their families and children to suffer so you the union can make more money is just plain wrong. Get over yourselves!
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Originally Posted by PWL
I wouldn't have gotten a bat thrown at me because you couldn't pay me enough to cross the AMLU picket line. Money isn't a motivation for me, morals are. I respect the working man and what they have to deal with, especially unreasonable management. They are a recognized union by the NLRB which is their right, too. I didn't know it was a constitutional right to "scab".
I am not condoning the action of the player, just the morals of the umpire who felt he needed to be there.
Until these "scabs" accept the same conditions and pay PBUC was offering the AMLU umpires, then their not really fulfilling the role. Quit your other job or take a leave of absence and drive all over the country, eat crappy food, sleep in a Motel 6, and do your own laundry. Oh yeah, in your spare time go umpire a ball game. Don't sit at home living the good life.  |