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Anti-scab legislation now! | Unifor.org (www.unifor.org)

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[–] jadero 3 points 2 years ago

I disagree. That makes it sound like ideology is the driving force. No ideology is perfect and there are reasonably held ideologies that cannot be reconciled with each other.

Scabs should be illegal under the same legislation that makes unions possible. The vast majority of union contracts require the employer to hire only union labour. Under those contracts, hiring scabs during a labour dispute is a violation of the contract, plain and simple, no ideology required.