 FLea973Premium
join:2001-02-27
Morristown, NJ | reply to lefty1
Re: Goodbye said by lefty1:
I've seen this happen during other strikes.
That is where this guy is screwed... they are not on strike yet. Activity of an employee, union or not, is a lot different than activity of a stiking employee in the eyes of the law. Hell, there is plenty of case law that protects strikers from prosecution AND firings for what joe-citizen would call acts of terrorism performed DURING a strike (just look at the nasty crap during the Greyhound strikes in the 80's - shootings, beating up replacements, damaging buses WITH passengers on it... passengers getting injured as a direct result of striker activity) sure the strikers got nailed for criminal activity is SOME of the cases.. but NONE of them could be fired for it.
Yes the union needs to put up the front to "protect" the guy, but if they do much more than just go through the motions and allow him to be terminated in a proper way, they damage their own position at the negotiations and in arbitration if it goes that far. |
