Bargaining and Strikes 7-24 (web).pdf - Valero
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Bargaining and Strikes 7-24 (web).pdf - Valero
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strike against several grocery chains. All totaled,<br />
the assessed fines exceeded $120,000. (See<br />
Attachment A.)<br />
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19. Question:<br />
<br />
Answer:<br />
What happens to employees who choose to<br />
support a union strike by refusing to cross a picket<br />
line?<br />
Strikers . . .<br />
• Lose their wages;<br />
• Cannot collect unemployment compensation while<br />
staying out of work on strike;<br />
• Must pay full premium if choose to continue medical<br />
benefits; <strong>and</strong><br />
• Can be permanently replaced in strikes over union<br />
economic dem<strong>and</strong>s.<br />
<br />
20. Question:<br />
What do you mean strikers can be “permanently<br />
replaced”?<br />
<br />
Answer:<br />
By law, companies have a legal right to continue<br />
operating during a strike by hiring permanent<br />
replacements. When the union finally calls off the<br />
strike, the strikers do not have an automatic right<br />
to their job after the strike if they are permanently<br />
replaced. Permanently replaced strikers can only<br />
ask for a job back <strong>and</strong> wait around hoping for a<br />
vacancy to occur in some job they can perform.<br />
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