I totally would not cross a picket line.
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Smashmouth
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Not a chance!
I don’t even like to walk into work on a normal day. Never would I cross.
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I could use a few months off anyway body is beat to hell. Got a good chunk saved I’ll be fine, so it’s a negative for me.
A lot of people want to walk just because they don't like this place. If you gonna walk it's gotta be for a good reason and many of the junior employees may not have a job to come back to.
Smashmouth
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We had four guys in ‘97 cross. That was the day they were excommunicated from any type of social functions involving coworkers. Mostly we had supervisors attempting to work, but somehow 5th wheel pins got pulled on trailers and supervisors pulled out and dropped trailers on the ground because the legs were up. A coke delivery guy was offered to buy all his cokes for the picket line, but he turned us down and decided to cross, somehow his Freightliner hand cart went sideways with about 30 cases of soda on it....but yes differnt times now....the millenials dont seem too loyal to much of anything, would be interesting to see what would happen.
Nobody crossed here but we did have a lot of other support from other Teamsters.
I would guess that 5% of employees would. They would get more from outside.
This isn't a job you can just jump into. No matter how much technology they have.
Smashmouth
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Well, I’m in Florida, not exactly a hotbed for union activity, especially back then.(it has gotten better) We did have a bunch of retirees that had moved down from up north that supported us, fed us, walked the line with us. They ended up shuttering our building, removing all the signs, the gas pumps, and for two weeks after the stike ended, we were running out of another center 40 miles away.
Smashmouth
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I still remember the first day...we all walked out, the preloaders walked off the job and our center manager came outside with a video camera and was filming us as he walked up to the group. He says “ If you all dont come back inside RIGHT NOW youre all FIRED!”.....there was a moment of complete silence, and then everyone in unison...BAHAHAHAHAHA!....It was on!!
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Never.
Indecisi0n
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Never, you cross your a scab. Living paycheck to paycheck is your fault not ours. Don't want to hear excuses.
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@anHOURover was walking I mean working at your facility in 97?
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Just use the methods bro. That's all you need and itll be alright.
Just go out an do an honest effort and be safe.
JustDeliverIt
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I never would. A lot of drivers in my building I don't think would, even the young ones. Everyone gets treated like crap so there is really no incentive to cross unless your living way beyond your means and can't live without the paycheck.
