By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org

CLEVELAND – Organized labor thugs obviously want to black list the good people who volunteered to teach students in the Strongsville, Ohio school district during the recent teacher strike.

David Quolke, president of the Cleveland Teachers Union, has filed a lawsuit to try to force the Strongsville school district to turn over the names, addresses, telephone numbers and other information about the replacement teachers, according to Cleveland.com.

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Quolke first ordered union attorneys to make the request March 5, the day after 380 Strongsville teachers started an eight-week strike against the district and their own students, the news report said. He claims the district’s refusal to share the information is a violation of Ohio’s open records laws.

But school officials say the law exempts open records requests that pose “a threat of harassment or harm,” the news report said.

Strongsville school officials are doing the right thing by telling the union to buzz off, and the court should follow suit.

Everyone knows how labor activists feel about replacement workers, known as “scabs” in their twisted dialect. Union protesters harassed and threatened the replacement teachers when they were reporting to be interviewed at the Strongsville police station in March. The very fact that the subs had to be interviewed at a police station says a lot about the potential for union violence.

During the strike, protesters went door-to-door with handouts in the neighborhoods of several replacement teachers, alerting residents that they lived near anti-union “scabs.” At least one police report accused a striking teacher of purposefully swerving his vehicle toward another vehicle filled with replacement teachers.

So why, at this point, would any union official want detailed information about the people who had the courage to make sure Strongsville students could finish their school year on time?

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We’re pretty sure it’s not to send them roses and “thank you” letters. We suspect they want to black list them, so they will have more than a little trouble finding work in other districts in the future.

The courts have a responsibility to protect citizens from people who clearly want to harm them, either physically or in terms of their personal or professional reputations. No good could come from turning these names, addresses and phone numbers over to the union thugs.

They just want revenge. Our legal system should not assist them in fulfilling their sickening goal.