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Just one person's declaration is enough to make me a 'scab'? No group functions that way. To use a dumb analogy, if I declare that HN is at war with Reddit, and you don't join in, that doesn't make you a 'traitor' to HN. A single member doesn't get to arbitrarily declare a high-stakes situation for an entire group just by saying so.

The question is, what are the actual norms that determine it, and are the current strikers meeting those norms, or have they simply gotten some media attention? By the way, I'm not saying their demands aren't reasonable.

> the workers that are filling in for the strikers are scabs

This skips a step. Who gave the strikers the right to choose this for the entire workforce? If my coworker says "I strike" and I stay at my desk, does that make me a "scab"? The article gives no information about who the workers are, how many of their fellow workers they represent, how long they've been doing the job. I'm not sure what would qualify them to speak for everybody, but it's got to be more than giving a quote to NPR, and surely it depends how many of them there are, relative to their coworkers.