[NOS2Go4Me]

I'd cross it in a heartbeat - whether it was to write a final, hand in an assignment or to retrieve my hat.

By saying I wouldn't cross a picket line would mean that I support organized temper tantrums. Which I don't. So I most earnestly will.

I think there was a strike in 97 when I was going to set an appointment for my G2 exit roadtest. I drove up to the line... and some chowderhead walked up to me and said "Where do you think you're going?"

"To go book my road test"

"You know there's noone in there but managers"

"Are you going to compensate me for my loss of ability to write my exam and cost to get an extension when my G2 expires?"

"No."

"Good - move or you'll get run over"

And he did.

These strikes are indeed engineered to hit the common, non-unionized folk the hardest, and considering that we're paying their paycheque in one way or another (taxes, tuition, buying a new car, etc), you would think that they would be a little more mindful. But they aren't.

Their unionized coworkers and symapthizers express "Solidarity" and therefore they don't publicly bitch when there's a strike. Maybe unions have a rule (unwritten rule?) that they can't decry a strike by another union. Don't know, don't care.

If I have to be somewhere, regardless of the reason, and that "somewhere" is the other side of a picket line... I'm getting there. Whether it's pleasantly or otherwise is up to the "person" wielding the picket sign.