Posted on 02/28/2015 8:53:09 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
I HAVE A FAVOR to ask of the union members who've been picketing the Pennsylvania Convention Center:
Leave the Philadelphia Flower Show alone.
As in for real, guys.
If you're planning to disrupt the show the way some members of the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters disrupted the Philadelphia Auto Show on Feb. 7 - don't argue they didn't; we're not idiots - please just don't.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
We’ve had MORE than our fill of them here in Wisconsin!
But - Right To Work legislation is heading to Governor Scott Walker’s desk next week!
Screw ‘em. So tired of all this. Really, REALLY tired.
The Convention Center that used to be Reading Terminal?
You keep voting for socialism, Philadelphians and PennsylJerseyans, so now endure it.
only one part is the reading terminal and they did a nice job remodeling it. The real reading terminal with the food, groceries and other shops is still there underneath and the roof doesn’t leak any more. you can’t bring your own food into the beer garden anymore. without the unions it would be a functional space. i don’t think the expansion was necesary and yes they probably could have gotten private companies to foot the bill. it’s way bigger than it needs to be,
Fifteen years ago, I volunteered for a guy here in town to help set up an exhibit in that rat hole. It was for an electronics business he owned. When we pulled in, we started unloading were told we had to wait for some union. We had to pay them and the elevator operator to take the stand upstairs. I started to put the stand together and was physically assaulted by the carpenters union. It took them four hours to put nuts on the fifteen bolts we needed to erect the stand. I went to plug in a wire in the wall and was, again pushed. “WE do all the electrical work!” Three hours later, we got plugged in. The bills kept mounting and some a**hole said we needed to pay some fee for a janitors union to clean up after we left. My buddy said “F this. Let’s leave.” We had to pay the same fees to unload the stuff we brought up to show, but we left the exhibit there. Let them dispose of it. The people who charged him to exhibit didn’t give him his exhibit space money back. All told, he lost $7,000 and never got to exhibit anything.
Philly union thugs. What a combination. Well, they can be assured that their leaders like Donald Trumka will look out for their interests by bringing in millions of Mexicans who will work harder than they do for one-quarter of the labor cost.
Idiots.
If a person or group wanted to have a Flower Show, they should channel George Clarence Moran!
Not too many would stand in the way.
“PennsylJerseyans”
I think there’s an anti-biotic for that.
A plumbing contractor I know outfitted his new house with high end fixtures, stuff you might read about in Architectural Digest!
He explained that at the end of the show the vendors do not want to pay $$$ to have the display carried out, so they sell for way less. He then has his own union plumbers pick it up.
Yes Chicago is a union town! How is the CES summer show going? And about the city union pensions?
“All told, he lost $7,000 and never got to exhibit anything.”
The important thing is the union thugs got home safely at the end of the day.
Me personally, I think it should be a little more up-in-the-air than that.
Is it FDA-approved?
Yep. Same thing happened to my sister and her friend’s company. They used to exibit in the Philly show. It is quite something to see.
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