Totally Tuggish

The Transport Workers Union wants to penalize workers who crossed the picket line by fining them, the Daily News reports:

A Transport Workers Union Local 100 committee passed a resolution earlier this week mandating strikebreakers pay fines to the union’s Widows and Orphans Fund.

The fines would mirror those being imposed by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the more than 33,000 bus and subway workers who walked off the job Dec. 20. That’s two days for each day of the strike — or six days’ worth of wages.

“Those who crossed the picket line willfully damaged our ability to sustain the picket and jeopardized our ability to organize any necessary future strike action,” the track division committee said in a statement.

The resolution now goes to the local’s executive board, which meets Tuesday. It also would strip strikebreakers of their seniority privileges — the ticket to choice assignments with the best conditions and overtime opportunities.

How is this not like the mafia?