Posted on 02/02/2017 1:35:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WHEN I COVERED the protests of President Trump and the Republicans on retreat in Philadelphia last week, I was struck by the sheer number of signs that were carried by protesters. Many were straightforward about stopping the repeal of Obamacare. Many beat to death the meme of Trump as Hitler. Some were very crude, and others were really clever.
Signs like "We want a leader not a creepy tweeter" were interesting. As a Sixers fan, I think "Trust the protest" was probably my favorite. They mostly reflected anger and desperation.
However, I noticed two signs hanging from a construction site around 11th and 12th and Market that diametrically opposed the anger of the protests. In fact, one sign actually welcomed President Trump to Philadelphia. One sign read "Build Union. Buy American." Another read "Welcome to Philly, Mr. President."
The signs caught the attention of Fox News contributor and pollster Frank Luntz, who tweeted about them and identified that they were put up by IBEW Local Union 98, John Dougherty's union. Breitbart News picked up the story and originally went with a false narrative that union workers put up the signs but were forced to take them down by their union bosses.
I went to Johnny Doc for answers. He joined me on my radio show and said about the signs, "We didn't tell them to take them down. We actually paid for it." When I asked about placing the signs in such a visible location in the middle of the protests, he said, "Why would you place the signs where no one can see them?"(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
More Winning !
I bet they do. New plants means lots of work for all the building trades. Here in W. PA the new Shell plant will keep the local IBEW (Local 5)going for 5-6 years.
The New Silent Majority!
Mind-boggling. My brother’s been regurgitating his local IBEW’s liberal union politics for the last fifteen years. What will he do when/if their narrative changes?
Not a union fan, for many reasons but GOOD on him!
Used to have to work with those guys. And the CWA. Sucked to have to call in a union guy to swap out a video card or network adapter. A five minute job took over an hour.
I really did have better things to do.
Cheap goods from China do us no good if we cannot keep the Constitution and the Republic.
I will gladly pay a little more to keep the Republic.
I used to do electrical work for a company that made modular offices to be installed in factories, utility plants, etc.. Installed one in a Big GE plant East of Cleveland. I wasn’t in a union, I was a private contractor. The union guys really hassled me while I was doing the job. After several days, I finally finished, and was heading to the parking lot. One of the union guys came up and said, “I’m sorry I hassled you! I had to though. You do great work, very neat work. Wish my guys were as good as you.” Made me feel pretty good!
At least you got to do the work.
Worked with a Arch. Design firm whose Interiors Dept. (corporate) spec’d some of the first pre-wired open office panel systems, Haworth IIRC, in the late 70’s.
Contract was for three full bank corporate hq floors on Park Avenue. NYC IBEW local and custodial workers union threatened violence and strike. So after 3 days Bank capitulated. Bldg Maint Union guys dismantled the panels already placed. Union elec. workers removed the factory installed prewired elec modules and re-installed them after maintenance louts re-assembled cubical panels.
There are eight million stories in the naked city, more than half deal in broad scale corruption.
Oh man! What a fiasco! Luckily, the system we used, the union guys had never seen, and were clueless as how to do it.
While unions have been traditionally democrat and left-wing, I believe that The 2 POINT PLEDGE in President Trump’s First Inaugural Address really resonated with them.
The “2 Point Pledge” (my own name for it) is as follows:
1. BUY American
2. Hire American
I wouldn’t have gotten such an admission where I worked. I was management - low level - salary. It was a great place to work though.
You worked at the GE plant? Near the sheep ladies house?
Um, no. Think about the CWA. How did they come to be?
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