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Jack London said it best:


Where is Jack London's essay on "The Scab," which has been quoted in various labor actions?

This essay is more complex than one would suppose from the title. It was a speech later published in a collection of essays, The War of the Classes. In "The Scab" London discusses capitalist scabs, and the United States economy as a scab in relation to other nations. You may find that the quote you have is not in this essay, because the late James Sisson determined that some of the statements regarding scabs attributed to London actually come from other sources.

The Scab unedited speech

And don't forget...Throughout his adult life, London published prolifically: stories, essays, news articles and novels. He remained devoted to the idea of socialism, and twice ran for Mayor on a socialist platform. Both times he was soundly defeated.
 
So I would like to know if we at work are rightfully treating this guy. If he was just innocently working in mgt at the time of the strike. Or if he is a scab.

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Why would one human treat another with anything but dignity? You goons are no different then the backward tribal gangs in Africa or the Middle East, you just don't carry your hate to the level of murder (at least not anymore). The lack of education, class and understanding of the "active" union types is truley amazing. That those kinds of punk and gang like behavior is thought of as a good thing. Why don't you go put a deer head on his door step or something?

you sound like a scab yourself. Once a scab always a scab.I work at place that has some ex-mgt AMT's that lost their jobs in post 9-11 downsizing the formen supervisor types. They are treating this guy with a cold shoulder. So goes to show that even some ex-mgt have morals even though they were never in a union themselves.
 
The essence of unionism:

To keep incompetent employees, hire back justly fired employees. Create a cost structure that is impossible to compete in causing not just a few job losses but entire companies to disappear. I can name a ton of them! Unions in action-- management bad guys union members good guys, the unions would have you to believe.

The reality is you have some serious yes men who do anything short of murder to get into the union ranks securing themselves a cushy job for life while at the same time all the unions paying members who support them suffer either jobs losses or reduced wages, benefits and pensions that disappear.

Please my God please explain why in God's mighty name unions are necessary these days when what you receive for your dues is nothing but negative results?! Why would anyone willingly hand over money to loud mouthed incompetent uneducated thugs who are labeled union leaders. Like politicians they rank in the lower bowel chambers of the beast.

Unions are only a small percentage of the workers today with good reasons: They destroyed most of the high paying jobs with companies either going out of business or going overseas, they intimidate most people with unskilled uneducated fools as recruiters who only scare potential members away instead of signing them up into the ranks. Unions create an environment that doesn’t permit a small company to compete, they make it impossible to fire incompetent workers costing the company dearly, on and on there are many more negatives to unionism than positive.

The big scramble to China was made possible thanks to unreasonable unions not greedy corporate America like the unions would have you believe with their propaganda.

Look at your lot in life today as an airline worker and ask yourself honestly what has your union dues accomplished for you besides massive job loss, reduced everything you once had and a life style that is torment on your psyche.

You have freaks coming on these boards calling anyone who dares speaks the truth about unions mental cases when in reality they are the ones promoting hell on earth for union members via hard earned dues so they can keep on telling you how wonderful they are and how much you need them. It’s insanity when a man willingly hands over his hard earned money only to receive negative results, and that is exactly what union members are doing in today’s world, reaping negative results. When asking union leaders why or calling them to task, the members are reprimanded for daring to even ask such sacrilegious questions.

I will be labeled a union hater by the union mouth piece freaks on here, fine with me, but: Ask yourselves if what I state here is not the truth and then ask yourselves why you pay union dues. Is it to receive the life you are living which is: Insecurity, reduced wages and benefits with pensions severely reduced or completely taken away with the future only holding more of the same. To have this life you are living you must pay the union every month, month after month. Do you really feel you are making a wise investment?

700IAM = 700 club over the IAM’s head
 
I'm new here and just wanted to add my 2cents.

Interesting thing about scabs...ever notice that they try to make up a myriad of reasons as to why they didn't stand with their union brothers and sisters?

Nothing remotely "funny" about scabs or scabbing.
 
To get off the scab list in CLT all you had to do was pay a fine...then you were made whole again.

Its all about money.

SL
 
Management performed struck work, they are scabs.

Welcome back c

Management performed struck work so they are scabs? Typical. Comments like that make me damm glad I didn't become IAM. Mangement is suppose to support the strike? How ludicrous 🙄
 
then ask yourselves why you pay union dues. Is it to receive the life you are living which is: Insecurity, reduced wages and benefits with pensions severely reduced or completely taken away with the future only holding more of the same. To have this life you are living you must pay the union every month, month after month. Do you really feel you are making a wise investment?

700IAM = 700 club over the IAM’s head


There is value in unionism. Kinda like the bad wolf keeping the fox from raiding the hen house. When there is no fox you don't need the protection from the wolf, but you never really know how far away the fox is. Now if I was a hen, I'd tell the wolf to get lost AFTER I've built an escape route to a nicer more protected hen house. Moral of this stupid scenario is to make yourself versatile so you don't have to rely on the wolf! And don't cry if the wolf or fox devours you because you had no escape plans!
 
There is value in unionism. Kinda like the bad wolf keeping the fox from raiding the hen house. When there is no fox you don't need the protection from the wolf, but you never really know how far away the fox is. Now if I was a hen, I'd tell the wolf to get lost AFTER I've built an escape route to a nicer more protected hen house. Moral of this stupid scenario is to make yourself versatile so you don't have to rely on the wolf! And don't cry if the wolf or fox devours you because you had no escape plans!
Well said and why I have three trades under my belt and don't NEED a union, nor want one. Been there done that several times and every time it was nonsense. One small example: I like to work taking few breaks so I don’t lose my stride, loss interest. After taking a break sometimes I don't feel like going back at it so I opt out. In the union shops taking a break was mandatory, if you didn't take a break you were a big suck up company man a-zz kisser when in reality I just didn't want to. That is just ONE very true small example of unionism. Glad I don’t need them since I don't want them.
 
There was indeed a list at the local pit lodge. It was started back in the 92 strike. A friend of mine found himself on it because at the time he was still on his probation and HAD to report for duty!! With NO fault of his own his was label marked and shunned by the elitists IAM moronic so called leaders who are nothing but pure vermin promoted as fast as they are incompetent to highly paid union positions. This is why I will rot in hell before belonging to another union as they are as corrupt as the day is long with that corruption being coved up by mouth pieces who have raised out of the sewage pits, as we all see on these boards ad nausea.

I personally attended the union meeting in which this scab issue was brought to the floor for debate....a now deceased ex-LL 1976 president put up a motion where the people who were coerced into working by management during the strike would donate their wages earned during that week to some charity through the Local and appologize to the membership present.They did....appology was accepted.
The now deceased LL president attempted to press the issue that these people were scabs and should be labled as such...the floor repsponded with an overwhelming veto.
These people were threatened and put in the middle by U management...Guarantees to an new employee by a union do not outweigh the threats of termination by management at the time.This is why the floor overwhelmingly rejected the presidents request because they all had recently been in a probationary situation and had compassion for these guys.

I know these people and never thought at anytime they scabbed.....scabs intentionally cross for personal reasons..these people would have walked if they were under current union protection.Several of these people became stewards and decent ones at that.
 

I'm sorry I probably read this wrong but doesn't deceased mean he was dead? And dead men tell no tales?
 
Bottom line, they were told not to cross by union leadership.

They crossed an IAM sanctioned picket line and performed struck work.

Make any excuse you want, but they are scabs, they performed work of people that were on strike, does not get any clearer.

Even if they were on their 90 days, does not matter, they are scabs!
 
Bottom line, they were told not to cross by union leadership.

They crossed an IAM sanctioned picket line and performed struck work.

Make any excuse you want, but they are scabs, they performed work of people that were on strike, does not get any clearer.

Even if they were on their 90 days, does not matter, they are scabs!
You are so wrong, so very wrong.


The union doesn't pay their wages and therefore doesn’t dictate what the employees are to do. They were told to report for duty regardless of the strike, so they did the sane rational thing. Here in Pittsburgh where so many companies have vanished because of hard core labor fights, which were ALL lost , well these few men couldn’t possibly believe in or trust what history has shown, very dismal union results to the point ghost towns sprang up! Why would these men have any faith in what the union leaders said, they couldn't because there was nothing to base it on, zero. They were afraid it would be more of the same, the company going away along with their jobs.


To fault a man under such circumstances which the IAM did with a web site put up by John C of the local Pit lodge was dead wrong.


You can spin it all you want but you are so far off base you would lose in a court of law where rationality rules, unless your OJ.


You bias is twisted but does fills your pockets, and why it’s twisted.
 
(Edited by moderator.. of all people you should know that OUTING IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE BOARDS).

Welcome back, guess the moderators have not figured out it is you yet, guess they will and your lifetime ban will be enforced.

And they are scabs, they crossed a picket line and did work of striking mechanics, stock clerks and utility.

And by the way, the union gets them those wages and benefits.

Glad to see you have not changed.
 

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