Should we attend The Daily Show while the strikes still going on?
We’re heavy with unions here, heck, my mom’s an AFL-CIO company rep, but “crossing the picket lines” is, in my opinion, something that is generally said when referring to “scabs”, or people who go to work in place of the striking party. Your mileage may, and apparently does, vary, but I always thought that it was crossing a picket line to patronize a business that was being struck. In my family, that’s a big no-no. If workers are striking, buying from the business they’re protesting is kind of like spitting in their faces. So I will shop at non-union stores, although I prefer the unionized ones, but I would never, ever shop at a store that was currently being struck. Similarly, if I know that people who work for a company are striking, I won’t buy products made by that company. I’m still watching T.V. during the writer’s strike. There doesn’t seem to be much reason not to, since I’m not a Nielson family. I’m not downloading T.V. shows or buying them from iTunes, though, since networks
