The person who did it probably thought it was a good idea. In the 60's and the 30's strikers would also get into fights with people crossing the picket line.

Picketers would puncture the car's tires of the people crossing the picket lines.

I actually heard a young couple, in their late twenties, talking about crossing the picket line just for fun. That's an actual quote: "we are going to buy something just to piss them off." Arrogant as they were, they were probably children of a rich family in Berverly Hill. Anyway I talked politely to them about the other shopping option one block away --Ralphs. They confronted the strikers, and they seemed to enjoy it.

When they came back from the store with their one tiny pack of Chewing gum, they started confronting the crowd of picketers again.

Later on the young woman would fight with a female striker (photo). Minutes after that the young man started to fight with a male striker (no photo).

Both initiated the fight. And strange enough they didn't seem on drug. Well you cannot be really sure.

The arrogance of those rich people has no ends.

Shutdown this store by any means necessary!

Hey folks... the Longshoreman's Union has pledged to donate ONE MILLION DOLLARS to support the health needs of striking market workers.

THAT'S the type of solidarity the strikers need.

The photos posted above SHOULD NOT encourage anyone to re-create that type of protest... but DO COME to the local picketline to support the strikers. Don't pick fights with scabs and strike breakers... TALK to them, explain things to them without loosing your temper. Most of them are workers too, yeah, they might not have things all figured out as yet... but that describes all of us at some point in our lives.

Class war? You betcha... the rich guys are waging it against us by taking away everything, overtime, healthcare, workman's comp, and shipping our jobs overseas. Time to stand up and defend those hard earned gains.

SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

There's going to be 99.99% "good strikers" and .01% who get aggressive.... but 100% of picket crossers hurt the strike.

The unions -- all of them, need to be trying to organize at all levels, not just the "easy pickins". The unions -- all of them, need to allow for democracy so that people feel like they have a real say in how they operate. Unions need to get political -- and I don't mean paying for Democrats. They need to educate people about class and economics.

Twice already, I've seen people at city council meetings declare that they were once union members.

The first time, it was a councilperson who voted against a resolution to support the strike.

The second time, it was an entrepreneur who supported Wal-Mart.

As a non-union supporter of workers organizing themselves, discussing work conditions, and fighting for fair regulations, I am dismayed that the Unions are turning out turncoats and traitors like these two characters.

Moreover, I'm disheartened when I hear someone with a union job act like a snob and put down unorganized workers who work for low wages at places like Wal-Mart. Did they forget that, despite their good wages, they are still part of the working class? A good job isn't membership in the middle class; it's just a temporary pass that can be revoked when unemployment is up, and pro-business politicians are in office. Every union member has an obligation to support organizing the competition, because the best kind of job security is to cooperate, not compete, with each other.

I wholeheartedly agree that the unions need to do a better job reachin out to unorganized workers and help them fight for better wages, healthcare, et al.

But, as you know, unions in the early part of the 20th century won a lot of concesions that we take for granted today becaues of their militant tactics. Flattening a guy who crosses the line´s tires is way less militant than what unions did 70-100 years ago, but still sends a heck of a message. And a slashed tire is a heck of a lot cheaper to fix than the losses in healthcare benefits that the strikers are facing. I´ve read in many corporate media outlets that the outcome of this strike is going to be a base for future contract negotiations nationwide betewen the chains and grocery workers. For those reason, I wholeheartedly support anyone with the courage to make that kind of a statement. Step up the militancy people.

Think again, they weren't the problem. You vomitous scumbags were. Hope one of them takes a few of you out. Your worthless, trouble making bagboys. Get back to work and be grateful for a job.

If the corporations break this union, they'll move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

It's a race to the bottom for wages in this country and all over the world, and your laughable ignorance helps fuck everyone over.

Speaking as an average shopper, I had no ill will to someone wanting to improve their means. However, after seeing several examples of the aggressive behavior of the strikers toward customers they have lost my support. Among my peers I believe this is popular atitude. I now have no reservations about crossing the picket lines. Its just sad and a little disturbing what the strikers have reduced themselves to.

Suppose your boss tells you and 70,000 of your coworkers that you're going to get a cut in compensation...

...are you going to tell each other "be grateful you have a job," and "we must remain polite."

That's just how rich people want to see the poor people behave. They think:

"We screw you over all the time, but we want you to be polite to us if we scoop you some soup when you're in the soup kitchen."

Those are the thoughts of the dejected and defeated, the used and the abused. A lot of workers are suckers, because they're "in it to lose it."