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Originally Posted by Dion
God points man! 
The first 3 weeks of the strike they make only $8 an hour. They get $10 in the 4th.
Walking a picket line isn't easy. They don't get to sit on thier duffs all day, you have to be walking around with a picket sign or vest to block trucks coming in or to draw support from passing motorists. Not a fun or easy way of making money. In fact the days are very long and boring. Did it for a day in 97 and went out and found a temp job the next until the strike was over. |
I never said it would be easy, but it means a strike won't financially break them like it did in the strike I was a part of (read: ignored as I went to work as normal). I know lots of guys at Cargill who had a blast on the picket line, but they were not allowed to block trucks past the first day due to an injunction and I am pretty sure they were all drunk as skunks most of the time.