When a company is on strike and employees picket outside the building with signs, do witness employees participate in any way? Usually there is a strike fund for those who picket. What about the witnesses, how do they proceed when their company is on strike, and do they get the same amount of money as the others who picket?
Do witnesses picket when they are on strike?
by JH 18 Replies latest jw friends
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PinTail
Sorry Vergina, Witness's don't do diddly they want to reap the blood sweat and tears of a free county with out one thought of paying for the ride. Oh buy the way they should thank us for our blood that cures them from many infections and infermitys; I am sure there are many types that blood is a cure for as they hang both legs over the fence on.
Shane
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kwintestal
No. And I believe they are to cross the picket line if possible.
Kwin
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JH
If witnesses don't participate in strikes , why do they get the salary increases that the union fights for?
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LoverOfTruth
The WTBS expects them to take this free time to go from door to door peddling Books and Magazines.
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lonelysheep
The WTBS expects them to take this free time to go from door to door peddling Books and Magazines.
I was told that.
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under74
"If witnesses don't participate in strikes , why do they get the salary increases that the union fights for?"
Because Jehovah provided it? It's hypocritical like condemning the UN and then joining it. -
jb
I don't agree with some of the comments made. My Dad belongs to the UAW he's an active witness. They have gone on strike and he went with them. He did not picket, but he was out on strike. He never crossed the picket line. And as for as getting a free ride he payed his Union dues every pay check. Not everyone in a union walks the picket line. Being in a union is not a free service that he just took advantage of. Nobody was paying in his behalf.
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NewYork44M
I remember when young my father was a union member and worked for a factory that went on strike almost every year. He did not join the picket line and thus did not get the "strikers pay" from the union during the time they were on strike. However, he did not cross the picket line. I actually don't think the factory operated during that time. The time was always treated as an unpaid vacation. In regards to receiving any pay increase. I agree with jb, there is nothing wrong with collective bargining and receiving a pay increase. He paid his union dues.
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blondie
I remember when young my father was a union member and worked for a factory that went on strike almost every year. He did not join the picket line and thus did not get the "strikers pay" from the union during the time they were on strike. However, he did not cross the picket line. I actually don't think the factory operated during that time. The time was always treated as an unpaid vacation. In regards to receiving any pay increase. I agree with jb, there is nothing wrong with collective bargining and receiving a pay increase. He paid his union dues.
This is pretty close to what I have seen done. Remember there are closed shops and open shops, in one you are required to join and the other is optional. In some places, whether you join or not dues are taken out of your pay.
JWs are not to be come union stewards or run for positions in the union due to the political/voting aspect.
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w61 2/15 p. 128 Questions from Readers ***How
should a dedicated Christian Scripturally view labor unions and participation in their activities??S. B., U.S.A.The Scriptures counsel Christians to "provide the right things in the sight of all men." "Certainly if anyone does not provide for those who are his own, and especially for those who are members of his household, he has disowned the faith and is worse than a person without faith." These texts have a bearing on labor unionism, because to obey them it may be necessary to join a labor union. An analogy might be drawn between one?s duties as a member of a labor union and those he has as a citizen of a country. For benefits received from the government the Christian pays taxes; similarly, he could properly pay union dues, since such would in effect be job insurance. There can, therefore, be no objection to a Christian?s merely belonging to a labor union, paying the dues and heeding the call to stop work in the event of a strike.?Rom. 12:17; 1 Tim. 5:8.
However, a Christian should not get involved in union activity to the extent of holding an official position in the union. Nor, in the event of a strike, should he take part in picketing or in other ways agitate for the cause of the strike. Above all, he should not engage in violence in labor disputes, for "a slave of the Lord does not need to fight." "If possible, as far as it depends upon you, be peaceable with all men." Just as a Christian is neutral regarding politics and wars of his country, so the union member who is a Christian does not get involved in the governing activities and economic warfare of the union but must remain neutral.?2 Tim. 2:24; Rom. 12:18.
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w61 5/1 p. 285 Do You Remember? ***May
a Christian engage in labor union activity?He may be a member, but he would not accept an official position or engage in picketing or otherwise agitating for the cause of a strike.?P. 128.