On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:12:19 -0500, Frank Boettcher
wrote:

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:16:25 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

DGDevin wrote:
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Care to explain how a union goes on strike while their contract is
still in force?


Uh, they walk off the job. Happens often. Auto workers were
famous
for it in the 60's & 70's.

In which case the company goes to court and the union is ordered to
send its people back to work or face fines and jail time for
contempt.

And the union, depending on how ****ed off it is, either goes back to
work or says "screw you, jail the lot of us and see how much work you
get done".

No, the contract is invalidated, the company terminates the lot and
starts over in a non union environment. The NLRB may sanction the
international but there is no contract at that point. It is a fatal
violation.

I think Frank may have been working in a "Right to Work" state (i.e.
the South) as opposed to a strong union political power state (i.e.
the northeast). I assume the mid-west and places like Alaska are
somewhere in between.

Remember what Reagan did with the striking air traffic
controllers who thought he was bluffing?

Which is generally a costly option. However cop strikes tend to be
slowdowns rather than stoppages--they'll still go after the thieves
and murderers but they won't write speeding tickets or the like, they
all call in sick on the same day, etc. Google "blue flu".

In any case this is beside the point. The contract without doubt
agrees to the steps needed to fire a trooper.

Without doubt? You've read it?

This union intervened
and got this one trooper's suspension cut in half, so it's
reasonable
to think they would have gone to court if he had been fired
improperly. Mr. Clarke's question as to why the union isn't on
strike over this is rather odd since the trooper wasn't fired.

And if he wasn't fired then in what way was undue influence
demonstrated?

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