A Scab's Greeting

Here in the Bay Area, the Teamsters Local 70 workers have been locked out by Waste Management. A couple of articles can be found here and here if you're interested in the details. I was passing by the entrance to the dump today and paused for a while to observe the scene. At the Waste Management entrance, two guards were videotaping each truck that came or went as it passed the groups of locked out workers on either side of the road. The biggest group was holding up LOCKED OUT signs to the trucks and cars coming to the facility to dump trash, but on the other side of the road the man pictured above and an associate were shouting at the replacement drivers of the garbage trucks as they left the facility. The f-bomb was flying, as were several uncomplimentary modifiers of 'scab.'

It was pretty tense, let me tell you. I think those video cameras were a very shrewd move to avoid possible violence.