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disabled-femme · 1 year ago

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labor psa: a scab is somebody who does struck work. a scab may be a union member or not—usually not, in many industries. if you are doing work that would ordinarily be done by a person on strike, you are a scab, even if you yourself are not part of a union whose members are striking

for example, an influencer who starts doing promo work for struck companies that would ordinarily be done by actors: that is a scab

regular person going to see a movie: not a scab

annoyed addition: customer going to coffee shop whose baristas are on strike to get a coffee made by a scab: not scabbing, but crossing the picket line

#i saw a post today that said only people who should be on strike are scabs #and that is incorrect #managers are often scabs frex #(this happened at john deere iirc and was disastrous)#sometimes scabs get bused in from other towns #or just other departments or whatever #(happens a lot with grad student strikes where the institution tries to hire undergrads to grade)#anyway #crossing a picket line is a different thing also #like if starbucks baristas are on strike and you go get a coffee made by a scab you're crossing the picket line but not scabbing #we should all learn labor history in schools but of course #that would defeat the purpose of schools #we should bring back harsher consequences for scabs btw in my opinion #not to say all scabs should get the casey jones the union scab treatment but #well i do think it would benefit everyone if that song was back in the popular consciousness #with apologies to the actual casey jones who was apparently not a scab at all

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