Well let us know how it went.  Also if the cops (also unionized BTW_ are allowing things to get out of hand call the police and ask for the chief of police and complain YOU as a private citizen feel threatened and demand thay control the unruly croud.  As a private citizen you could put this demand in writing and send by registered mail, then sue of you are not sufficiently protected (of you get hurt or hit by a flying object or your bike/car vandalized).  If you aren't afraid to sue you wil probably get a lawyer to take the case.

Our group has decided that if someone does get hurt via a union person and the police don't help- then the sueing will begin.  #1.  The union for not controlling its minons.  #2 The city- for coming to aid or help/protect #3 Verizon for not making the work place a safe place.

Course given the two options I would rather just go to work - do my job and go home.  As I bet half the union folks on strike would be thinking too.

Verizon will lose nig time due to the threat of work or lose your contract and the cops... well they just plain suck.

Just curious.  Does anyone know of any incidents any where in the country in the past 5-10 years where "Scabs" were actually physically assaulted by strikers?  I really think the risk is being severely inflated here.

QuoteDoes anyone know of any incidents any where in the country in the past 5-10 years where "Scabs" were actually physically assaulted by strikers? I really think the risk is being severely inflated here.

I agree that the risk is probably much less than what the rhetoric makes it out to be.  However, here in Michigan, where I work in the auto industry & have had to deal with the UAW frequently, there is at least some risk of nasty confrontation sometimes.  Usually, there are no physical attacks, but often there are things such as keyed paint or slashed tires on cars & such.  A few years ago the phone workers union was on strike & there was suddenly a flurry of sabotage on phone lines all around.  Odd coincidence don't you think?  Of course, the union claimed to know nothing about it even while they dragged their feet in making repairs.
Now, before you get the wrong idea, I am not totally opposed to unions.  Unions have a place - without them a huge segment of workers would be regularly taken advantage of by corporations.  The fact that someone with barely a high school education can make 50, 60 even 70k a year is pretty amazing.  Without the unions those same folks would be making poverty wages.  BTW, the work they do on the assembly line is HARD work & the wages they get are EARNED.  My problem is that the union mentality, promoted by the leadership, is one of entitlement to the extreme with the mindset that either you're for the union & all its goals (including moral & political positions that have NOTHING to do with the union's real purpose) or you're the enemy.  It makes it hard for those of us who are neither in the union or in management - we're just caught in the crossfire.
Snapper, when this is all over you & your chums can just relax & have a beer I think you'll find that all the worry & tough talk was just that - worry & talk.  Hope things are going well