Rob Parker controversy

Crossing a picket line is not a "personal choice." It's a betrayal of your fellow workers. It's the act of profoundly selfish cowards. They can rationalize it all they want. Doesn't change how yellow they are.

 

And of course, you have the inside track ...

Color me shocked.

 

This isn't about Drippy. This is about a poor black man losing his job. Let's try to stay on topic.

And have a Happy Leaving The Newspaper Business Day

 

Color Me Badd.

 

Mike, I understand and respect where you are coming from. No one wins in a strike. As I said in an earlier post, I know of one instance where management told a beat guy that there was an excellent chance that he would lose his beat if he didn't cross.
Jobs in this business are difficult enough without another anchor weighing you down. I couldn't tell the guy to stay out and risk not working again. He had a family to feed and it tore him up inside to cross.
Things worked out well in the end but those on the line knew what his situation was and there wasn't any animosity whatsoever.

 

ok

 

I cannot think of any instance where management would communicate such a thing to an employee during a strike.

 

Situation was in Seattle. And management "more or less hinted strongly" that the person needed to cross the line.

 

Given his situation both professionally and personally, he did what he felt was best. In the end, that's what we all do any way.

 

Like when you asked your next door neighbor on a date?

 

Why didn't he go to his union with this?

Even if he couldn't prove the company's insinuation, he should have gone to the union so there would be a record of the incident (or his take on it) so that if he did in fact lose his beat after the strike, it could be acted upon.

 

You are asking me questions that I can't answer. I don't know if he did or didn't go to the union and the union wasn't worth a shit to begin with.
All I know is that he's out of Seattle. In a better situation and making more money.