She was pregnant with her third child and was unwed. Smart girl, very pretty and a very hard worker. She thought earning 25$/hour to put resistors into little holes on a PC board at a manufacturing line was a God-send. So much so she was willing to brave the picket lines for the opportunity to make even half what the union was paid for the same work (better). I got to know her over a few weeks during the strike. She had little money and her car was an old broken-down Toyota hoopty.
One day as she was driving off the lot passing the picket lines one of the union instigators from out of town (Detroit) yelled out, "She's driving a Toyota! Get her!!!" He then proceeded to run up to her driver's side window, wielded a tire iron, smashed out her window and then repeatedly stuck her in the head and temple. There were only a few security guards hired by the company at that section of the lot. They attempted to intervene and the guy ran off as the other union members enabled his escape. She suffered devastating injuries and permanent brain damage, lost the baby and her children were orphaned. I was disgusted. Months later after the strike was settled one of the union members put up a photo of her on life support on the bulletin board with the comment, "This is what happens to SCABS. Watch out management or you will be next." What disgusting lowlife pigs. Everyone from the union thought it was a wonderful thing to post and got a big laugh.
So don't tell me about these wonderful union tactics and how righteous they are. I know you first hand and you are probably quite happy to read about what happened to this "SCAB". You are one in the same, cut from the same cloth and choose to get what you haven't earned on the backs of hardworking pregnant mothers through violence and any means necessary.