NBA Refs Possible Strike

[amusedofficial]

The biggest "win" for any college official is to have the integrity to refuse to work as a replacement during a strike.

I find the eagerness with which some would work NBA games during a lockout or strike to be repulsive. The replacement officials would be paid well, and on a scale negotiated by the union through collective bargaining. The pay was set at the bargaining table, where the employees' only leverage is the right to strike. Now, because they're using that leverage, you'd undercut the very tool that allowed you to be paid the wage you'd make as a replacemente official?

There is nothing as despicable as a scab.

[sseltser]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

The replacement officials would be paid well,

That's not true... see above.

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

The pay was set at the bargaining table, where the employees' only leverage is the right to strike.

How do you know this? Perhaps my knowledge of labor unions isn't up to speed, but for someone who doesn't join the union (i.e. a replacement), it doesn't compute in my head that they would be bound to the union rules.


And finally, the officials are locked out; this is not a strike.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

There is nothing as despicable as a scab.

Not even a child molester? OOPS! Wrong thread.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

The biggest "win" for any college official is to have the integrity to refuse to work as a replacement during a strike.

I find the eagerness with which some would work NBA games during a lockout or strike to be repulsive. The replacement officials would be paid well, and on a scale negotiated by the union through collective bargaining. The pay was set at the bargaining table, where the employees' only leverage is the right to strike. Now, because they're using that leverage, you'd undercut the very tool that allowed you to be paid the wage you'd make as a replacemente official?

There is nothing as despicable as a scab.

For someone who has such a strong opinion, I find it amusing that you have no clue about the situation. No one is striking. It is a lockout.

Plus, that type of attitude is, for the most part, why GM and Chrysler are where they are today. Do you really think that is where you want all US companies? You can strike and fight for higher wages for a couple of years until the company essentially goes bankrupt and shuts down the plant and moves it to a place where unions don't strongarm the company for wages higher than the work is worth.

[bob jenkins]

I'd request that all refrain from any "labor v. management" discussion. We've been down that road before and it doesn't end well.

If you want to discuss it, take it somewhere else.

[Welpe]

Sorry bob. I removed my post.