Posted: 12/7/2011 5:46:32 PM EDT
| First off, while I am not pro union, I don't want this to turn into a bashing thread. I'm just curious about something. When a union strikes or is locked out and protests in the parking lot of the employer, how is it not trespassing? I started thinking about that today when I drove by the local sugar plant(locked out since August). Signs regarding the lockout at the driveway, and what I presume to be union members' cars in the lot(I can't remember the last time I saw a car parked there unless it was a trooper running a speedtrap), and two campers set up near the driveway with members inside. Again, just wondering why they never get run off or arrested as trespassers. They're not customers, and not there for work(although these guys want to work, but the employer won't bend on the comtract they're offering). The sugar executives have compared the union to a "cancerous tumor"(as written in a recent news article). With no contract, union members locked out and temps hired, it seems to me like trespassing charges would be an easy way to get rid of the union they hate so much. Is there some other law that I'm missing that prevents this? |
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Always wondered the same thing when I was forced to join in on those stupid days.
Tho we never did so for more than a day as they would have brought in the National Guard to do our jobs if Taft Hardy didn't work. It gets real expensive real fast when the west coast docks shut down. Former ILWU member. |
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Property owner can designate who comes on his property. But many unions do not respect laws regarding public disturbance; vandalism; destruction of property; battery; or terroristic threats. Why would they hold a trespassing law sacred?
The self-centered nature of unions places their desires above the rights of all others. 
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