[olezip]

The hurricane-ravaged east coast has been receiving north Alabama help, but crews learned they'll be doing work in Long Island, New York instead of in New Jersey.

Is this a baseless claim that fails Snopes? The initial implication of turning down workers is that the damage in New Jersey was not as bad as reported. Non-union crews are more productive and cost less than union crews. Not only does New Jersey not have a lot of damage, but they have plenty of money to hire less productive, more costly crews.

[Truth29]

Don't know about Long Island, but Fox Business’s Stuart Varney conducted an interview with a General Manager for an Alabama power company that had crews staged in Virginia ready to move North. The Manager said his company was presented with documents from the IBEW that would require his crews to join the union to work in New Jersey and when they wouldn't sign, they were refused permission to work. His crews are now on their way back to Alabama.