Philadelphia newspaper employees planning to strike

No probably about it. Upper management always gets paid.

 

Bumped up to top again. Apparently there's a partial deal.

Tentative deal in Philly on one of two labor pacts | Poynter.

 

Here's a hypothetical situation: You were laid off from your job with a different media company and are still searching for full-time work. You've been freelancing for the Philly papers. If the union strikes, management is offering you twice the usual rate. Do you take the work, or respect the picket line, so to speak?

 

If you believe in Unions you would never be a scab.

To each their own.

 

Dick move.

 

Devil's advocate: If you have kids and no food on the table ... well, that changes the equation. If it comes down to breaking the picket line or feeding the kids, that's no choice at all.

 

A scab is a scab.

 

That's just human rationalization rearing its head again.

What if you had no kids and no food on the table?

Or if you have kids and just a little food on the table?

What is the exact "equation" that allows someone to believe scabbing can change from unacceptable to acceptable?

 

I'd never do it, but I wonder how much repercussion there would be in today's world where unions (especially in the private sector) have lost almost all of their meaning and influence.

I don't know if it would be a moral issue for people under age 30 or 35.

 

very little I imagine and management loves this.

 

I'm almost 40, and I'd break a strike in a heartbeat if I had to in order to support my family.

 

Even if you are part of the union that's on strike?