Posted on 11/17/2009 9:45:08 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Union Bullies Boy Scout for Dastardly Good Deed 17-year-old's 250 of community service angers Allentown union By TERESA MASTERSON Updated 12:30 PM EST, Tue, Nov 17, 2009
A 17-year-old Boy Scout worked more than 200 hours to clear a path in his local park so that people could enjoy walking and biking along the river.
Bad move Boy Scout. Now grown men who didn’t get around to doing it for a paycheck are after you.
Kevin Anderson, a junior at Southern Lehigh High School, a varsity soccer player and a Boy Scout hoping to get his Eagle Scout badge, spent 250 hours over several weeks creating a path on the partially complete 165-mile Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor that runs through Kimmets Lock Park in Allentown, reports The Morning Call.
"I decided to do my part in completing this part of the trail. In that way, others could enjoy walking along the river, without having to walk on the busy road," Anderson said in an e-mail, says The Morning Call.
But once the city’s municipal union caught wind of this do-gooder breath of fresh air, it put up a stink at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Unions said its considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing such good, free-of-charge, work to happen.
"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council, reports The Morning Call.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
Unions suck
Unions are wearing out their welcome too.
When are Democrats going to figure out that the dues money isn’t worth it.
I hope this makes news big time!!
It's getting more and more like Alice going down the rabbit hole.
But, but, but...didn’t Dear Leader himself proclaim that ‘volunteerism’ is good and expected. Or is the volunteerism just under the auspices of ACORN and the Committe to Re-Elect The Won??? (Sometimes I crack myself up)...
So the purple shirted mafia is taking on the BSA and Eagle Scouts.
Yet another ‘smart’ move from our Smartest President eveh...
SEIU thugs, Obama’s goons.
Gosh. I thought the Bamster was all for “community service”! Oh, yeah. Not honest service, just thugish, overpaid union “service”. Got that?
The boyscout should sue the union for scale wages at 250 hours and calim it all in one week, that way he would get time and a half after 8 hours, double time after twelve and triple time for Saturday and Sunday.
Gee....maybe the union should sue this boy scout!
Stay classy, SEIU!
“When are Democrats going to figure out that the dues money isn’t worth it.”
That will come when the amount of money they can get from unions is less than the amount from another group, and when they have to choose.
Typical Union SCUMTHUGGERY!
Same thing happened here in SoCal a few years ago...A Boy Scout refurbished dozens of bus stops for his Eagle Scout project...Unionscum filed a complaint, and the city had to pay the workers who would have been paid if they did the work. These people are evil, an unions should be outlawed.
Thugs -
“We’ll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails,” Balzano told the council, reports The Morning Call.
You just do that, Mr Balzano. You “look into” this kid. What, you gonna send some of your guys over to his house to get in his face? Maybe to his school? Or church, maybe you can get to him in church.
If I was in this community, I’d say “BRING IT ON” you asshat. Show us what you got, tough guy.
I'll be looking for you to fall down some stairs, DIRTBAG!
Explain to me why unions aren’t a violation of anti-trust law (or government, for that matter).
Not that I believe in the concept of anti-trust....but a bad law should be consistently applied, otherwise it will never be tested.
Hopefully the kid got approval from someone before starting the project. Unions not withstanding, there are always liability issues and such to be worked out in case he would have gotten hurt or someone else getting hurt because of what he did.
So, I guess some of the union's goons will be paying this boy a visit?
“Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Unions”
Notice the Italian name and SEIU affiliation.
Criminals getting together. And I know all Italians are not mob affiliated. The “mob job” has moved through ethnic groups for at least the last 100 years. Not every mobster is Tony Soprano.
Nothing a few union-busting goons can’t take care of.
Glenn Beck would love this story.
This story needs to be a political ad!
Unions are evil? ... You have no idea, FRiend. SEIU is the wicked democrats’ domestic thug army for whipping this errant nation into the socialist line. Between the ACORN manipulation of elections, and union control of industries, with cap and tax for green thuggery, America is in the shitter anyway.
I think he mentioned it this morning on the radio.
So much for Zero and his volunteerism...
Yup. I can't believe the country I'm living in. And if we look across the pond and see the totally bizarre stuff taking place in the UK, we can see pretty clearly that this is going to get even weirder, unless we find a way to stop it.
Glenn has already covered it today on his radio program. He even went further, to play Andy Stern’s own words which point to the communist ascension via SEIU and other union thuggery.
Seems to me that if the union had been doing its job of clearing the trail, the young man would have found something else to use for his Eagle Scout badge. Guess the SEIU didn’t like being shown up by a Boy Scout.
“We’ll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails,” Balzano told the council, reports The Morning Call.
You just do that, Mr Balzano. You “look into” this kid. What, you gonna send some of your guys over to his house to get in his face? Maybe to his school? Or church, maybe you can get to him in church.
If I was in this community, I’d say “BRING IT ON” you asshat. Show us what you got, tough guy.
“Looking into” who did this?? Is that not threatening language? The kid’s name is known. I hope he or his family are not met with threats or worse. Imagine if a pro life group or tea party people made such an overtly worrisome comment. There would be screams of “extremism!”
America would be better off without ANY unions whatsoever. We don’t need them. They need us. Get rid of unions and get rid of the damned leftist thugs....once and for all! They are parasites that drain the productivity of America and as such, we simply cannot afford the added burden they represent.
Maybe panels of employee advocates could be set up instead. Advocates that could or would go to bat for employees that are unable to do so for themselves. But no dues, no organized labor, no political bias and no devastating ‘thuggish clout’. Let’s end the insanity.
Kids who go for the Eagle are the top of the line. They will never be a Balzano and probably never work for one.
Kids who go for the Eagle are the top of the line. They will never be a Balzano and probably never work for one.
Great. I hope he covers it on his TV show tonight, which I’ll be sure to watch.
It’s like satire, but real.
Maybe the young man should get Tony and his crew to, uh, straighten out Mr. Balzano.
He talked about it last night on the TV show, since he was doing a piece on the thuggery that is SEIU.
It would be sweet if the kid’s family had higher connections to the mafia than does this punk Balzano.
Balzano would be delivering cannolis to the kid’s parents along with his apology. And probably sending his guys over to cut the lawn, too.
I’m sure Vito-from-Toledo is on his way, with a ball bat.
As the father of an Eagle Scout (fortunately not in a union-infested area), I would consider it such and take appropriate action...and maybe some "inappropriate action", too. Threatening kids takes a special kind of low-life scum and it seems the SEIU fully qualifies. Whatever happened to RICO, anyway????
It's also a BOY Scout award, not a Cub, that little snarky addition comes off as an insult, to my ears anyway.
I did not know that...thanks for the info.
“America would be better off without ANY unions whatsoever.”
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Yup. All my working life, I never belonged to a union. My relationship with the employer was simple: if I do the job well, I get paid; if I louse it up, I get fired. That should be all there is to it.
Every employer I ever had was generous in pay and benefits and when I needed time off (rarely), I could get it without a problem. Be fair with your employer and your employer will be fair to you.
“We’ll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails,” Balzano told the council...”
You do that Balzano. Maybe go after Girl Scouts too since they usually do community projects also. In fact Balzano, you might want to send a crew over to the Church to “look into” the nuns -they’re notorious for doing kind acts without being in the union.
I hate unions and the SEIU’s Balzano illustrates perfectly why.
Exactly on point -- the Council Scout Executive needs to become involved immediately to squash this or communities are going to refuse to allow aspiring Eagles to do projects for fear of SEIU scum-thugs seeking retribution.
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