But the state is overreacting. Name-taking is a union tactic used to provide leverage against members who fail to support their union. It may be intimidating and it may be strategic, but it is not threatening, dangerous or unduly coercive. Unions need to provide compelling reasons not to cross picket lines if they expect their employees to do so. And while the issue at hand is compelling, the union needs to retain leverage to keep members from sneaking past picket lines in the hopes that they will not be noticed.
Strikes are all about leverage.
Those who cross picket lines are going to be known anyway. The media will certainly make itself present, and people will take note of who crosses. It's just a matter of making picket-crossers public, of calling them to account for their trespass against their fellow teachers. And as sad as it may be that unions have to resort to such tactics, they do. Strikes are rarely about the issue as much as they are about power and leverage.