Verizon picketer places daughter in front of oncoming truck-video shows

A video posted online appears to show a Verizon picketer placing his young daughter in front of an oncoming truck — presumably carrying non-union employees — and then taunting the passengers with profanity-laced statements.

Child services needs to step into this situation! Something is definitely wrong when he puts his children in harms way to make his point.

Under communism and socialism, people are simply tools to an end.

I don’t know everything about unions but I grew up in an IBEW family.

Union members work under a contract with the employer. That contract gives the workers the right to strike if a new contract satisfactory to the union has not been signed. They do not get paid while striking, and temporary workers can fill their positions if they are willing to brave the thugs that block entrances to the business. But the union workers cannot be fired and must be allowed to return to work if they want to. Labor laws allow the union employees to disrupt business by blocking entrances and intimidating customers, vendors, etc. as long as they do not actually enter the property. If a business goes non-union, other unrelated unions like teamsters will also try to sabotage that business by refusing to deliver freight, catering, or whatever to that business. They won’t cross each others picket lines. Also, most government contracts require that the contractor be union — which in the case of Verizon means that the company would lose all those contracts if it tried to go non-union.

I know this because I retired after 30 years with SBC. The union routinely called the cops on strike breakers for all types of things, then they would go hack saw cables to make outages in key areas. After all, they knew the most valuable spots to knock things out to take the longest to repair.

Off topic a little,.....This is why I oppose independents having access to phone company cable records. If a contractor just got paroled, do you really want him to access cable records to a bank or pharmacy to find the burglar alarm pairs?

What a coward. Stand in front of the truck yourself. Don’t shove your daughter in front and scream at the workers.

I wonder if the father of the year drives a Union-made vehicle like Verizon had in the clip or a non-union import?

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