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Sandy: Long Island union sent written demand to Florida utilities: Pay dues or stay home
The Daily Caller ^ | November 3, 2012 | David Martosko

Posted on 11/04/2012 2:44:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife; SeaDragon; TheGrimReaper

Documented proof... never put it in writing, especially if you are denying it ever happened. idiots


41 posted on 11/04/2012 4:36:14 AM PST by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: carriage_hill
This is gonna go “over like a fart in church”

More like a fart in a crowded elevator that's stuck.

42 posted on 11/04/2012 4:38:00 AM PST by AU72
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The union goons turn their backs to Sandy victims. Here’s hoping that the helpless citizens return the favor.


43 posted on 11/04/2012 4:41:26 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Popman

Yep. And my brother in-law is one of them. Needless to say, our family relationship has suffered.


44 posted on 11/04/2012 4:41:43 AM PST by jersey117
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To: AU72

Even worse, on a hot day w/ no fan/ventilation working! LOL.


45 posted on 11/04/2012 4:44:43 AM PST by Carriage Hill ("0bummer's a towering figure" - even a Garden Gnome casts a long shadow at sunset.)
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To: windsorknot

You’re doing a bang up job there Long Island power company union goons!

From the NYT
Hundreds of thousands of homes on Long Island were still without power Saturday, and frustration with the utilities, particularly Long Island Power Authority, continued to rise. “LIPA, get your act together,” Edward P. Mangano, the Nassau County executive, wrote on his Facebook page Saturday. “This response and lack of communication with customers is shameful.”

Mr. Bloomberg, too, attacked the power authority, which provides electricity to the Rockaways. “LIPA in our view has not acted aggressively enough,” the mayor said. He said the power authority had “no clear timetable” for restoring the power and that it had indicated that some homes and businesses might have to wait two weeks before the lights went back on.


46 posted on 11/04/2012 4:49:00 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It also required the companies to pay fixed percentages of every worker’s hourly wage into seven separate union-controlled funds, including a $9.75 per work-hour payment to the IBEW’s health care plan and 22.5 cents for every dollar of salary into its pension fund.

a.k.a. the Democrat Party Slush Fund.

47 posted on 11/04/2012 4:49:47 AM PST by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Let the people that support the unions have the unions. When they get power sometime after January 2013, maybe they will have a change of heart and realize that unions are there to help a few thugs and not the general population they are supposed to serve.


48 posted on 11/04/2012 4:56:24 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: listenhillary

There are still over 450,000 LIPA customers without power and that’s what they are reporting on the news here, which means it is probably still over 550,000.


49 posted on 11/04/2012 4:59:29 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Crips. Bloods. MS-13. IBEW. Any questions?


50 posted on 11/04/2012 5:01:10 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: PMAS

Staten Island has a big retired population. Do you think these people will rebuild or go somewhere else. I live in NE PA and I am thinking we will have a influx of seniors up this way. Just thinking out loud.


51 posted on 11/04/2012 5:04:38 AM PST by angcat (ROMNEY/RYAN 2012)
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To: VP82254

Why? Because I’m in NJ and more interested in getting my power restored.
If someone else has to wait a little longer I’m ok with that.


52 posted on 11/04/2012 5:06:15 AM PST by Morris70
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To: GeronL

IBEW lied and people died.

Do I have it right?


53 posted on 11/04/2012 5:07:39 AM PST by healy61
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To: Chewbarkah

BTTT.


54 posted on 11/04/2012 5:09:13 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: VP82254

Most on Long Island are not “Lefties”, it is probably more Republican than Democrat on Long Island or split.

Peter King (R) is from Long Island


55 posted on 11/04/2012 5:11:28 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

UNIONS: the blood sucking bottom feeders of the working class ,,,, they have no fidelity or loyality to their companies or anyone else ,,, it’s all about their own self centered selfishness . They are generally thugs and bullies who use thug tactics to achieve self gain and have little interest in their employers mission .


56 posted on 11/04/2012 5:11:40 AM PST by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism is the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: GeronL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690


57 posted on 11/04/2012 5:12:18 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

There is a thundering silence from the political leadership in NJ and New York. Christi - has done nothing. Blumberg - has done nothing. Cuomo - has done nothing.....to tell the unions to come to reality. It has been 3-4 days since this union thuggery has revealed its real self. It is now too late for the states leadership to step up and redeem their pathetic, shitty, self-agrandizing decision making. Everything, and I mean, everything is weighed in the balance as to what is in the best interest of their political interests. Like obama weighing in the balance whether it would be in his best interest to save 32 people in Benghazi, or save the SEALS fighting to save obamas people in Benghazi. These politicians are weighed in the balance and have been found lacking.


58 posted on 11/04/2012 5:14:17 AM PST by Texas Songwriter (,)
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To: angcat

No, most wil rebuild, especially if the government and FEMA are picking up a lot of the tab.


59 posted on 11/04/2012 5:15:54 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Need to make sure that anyone who loses a family member or friend from lack of power gets this story...


60 posted on 11/04/2012 5:16:03 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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