Quote Contest: Common Sense About Scabs

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

”It is common sense that permanently replaced strikers means trading experienced, skilled employees for inexperienced ones.  Inexperienced replacement workers start at the bottom of the learning curve, a circumstance that can sometimes have grave consequences.  We wouldn’t have wanted rookies, for instance, assembling the tanks used by American soldiers fighting in Desert Storm.” Know who said it? Send us your best guess at streetheat@dclaborarchives.org and we'll draw this week's winner at random from those who send in correct answers; contest winners get recognized in UNION CITY and win valuable prizes!