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FBaggins

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5. Wrong.

Reply to Modern School (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 07:46 AM

Mar 2012

Just because people support or vote for something, doesn't make it legitimate, right or acceptable.

Actually, that's exactly what it does. A "scab" is someone who acts in opposition to the will of the union, not in concert with it. That's what "solidarity" actually means.

While we're on the subject, you also falsely described the situation as them agreeing to "work for free"

Which raises the obvious question... if you have to so regularly make up your own facts, how confident must you be in your position?

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LAUSD Bans Blindfolding and Eating in Class [View all] Modern School Mar 2012 OP

You do your position a disservice with too-frequent hyperbole. FBaggins Mar 2012 #1

They were fired and repression is still repression Modern School Mar 2012 #2

Please back that up FBaggins Mar 2012 #3

A scab is a scab, even if a union member supports it Modern School Mar 2012 #4

Wrong. FBaggins Mar 2012 #5

That's not fair proud2BlibKansan Mar 2012 #6

Lying requires a knowing falsehood FBaggins Mar 2012 #7

Offense Intended Modern School Mar 2012 #8

By the same dynamic, teachers who work weekends and evenings are like scabs. NYC_SKP Mar 2012 #9

LAUSD and some other districts need to be broken into smaller parts. NYC_SKP Mar 2012 #10