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Originally Posted by renny
Are you daft? Get over it. 99.9% of the audience understands what's going on regardless of the words being used. Stop thumping your bloody union book and get over it.
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I am - as a long-time self-employed professional - as far from a union supporter as one can get. And yes, we all "understand" that "work has stopped". It is the initiation of that action that is at question here. The action was taken by the owners and not the players. In legal, technical and jargon terms that is known as a "lockout", not a "work stoppage", regardless of the fact that "work has stopped".
The point - lost in the semantics - is that the Flames (and others) are trying to paint a picture that is untrue. Those who don't particularly follow the action are liable to be misled.
Is that anyone on CP? Probably not. Is it anyone in the mainstream? Quite possibly.
THAT is the point.