You may have heard about the garbageman strike in
Philadelphia.
Two years ago my wife and I visited Scotland, and on our way to our Edinburgh hotel bags of garbage lined the streets. We had never seen anything like it.
I told her: the garbagemen have to be on strike. And we discovered that they were: it's called a "bin strike" over there. And thank goodness it was resolved the day after we arrived.
Well, according to CBS News, throughout Philadelphia right now "mountains of trash continue to pile, and the city is starting to smell. Many city streets are lined with piles of garbage, some so big that they're taller than people."
On social media, one woman said she'd take a carful of trash to the dump for people for $25.
The AFL-CIO,
not having read the room properly, responded to her on Twitter with: "this is scabbing btw and is a pretty bad look tbh."
(For anyone who needs this decoded, btw means "by the way" and tbh means "to be honest.")
The comments are merciless. We're supposed to sit here helpless while garbage piles up around us and the stink is unbearable? A woman isn't even allowed to help people with her own car? What on earth is wrong with
you?
The geniuses who run the AFL-CIO Twitter account responded (I am keeping the original capitalization and formatting): "scabbing is when union work is done by non union workers while the union is withholding their labor during a strike. In this case, the union has specifically asked the public not to do this."
No surprise, the AFL-CIO can't even correctly describe a scab (a dehumanizing word, by the way, the kind of language the left would oppose in virtually any other
situation).
Scabs are people who seek employment at the firm where the strike is taking place. They're not any people anywhere offering the same service as the striking workers.
As I say, the comments are not encouraging for the AFL-CIO. The idea that people shouldn't even be allowed to dispose of their own garbage -- or indeed be paid to provide a service other people
desperately need -- is evidently too much even for left-leaning Philadelphia.
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