Posted on 11/15/2009 10:55:31 AM PST by Born Conservative
In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.
Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union.
Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.
"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.
Balzano said Saturday he isn't targeting Boy Scouts. But given the city's decision in July to lay off 39 SEIU members, Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path.
"We would hope that the well-intentioned efforts of an Eagle Scout candidate would not be challenged by the union," said Mayor Ed Pawlowski in an e-mail Friday. "This young man is performing a great service to the community. His efforts should be recognized as such."
Balzano said Saturday the union is still looking into the matter and might cut the city a break.
"We are probably going to let this one go," Balzano said .
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ACORN sets ‘em up in business, SEIU is the customer?
but we’re the ones who get screwed....
The SEIU joins the ACLU for being Scum.
Yeah, I bet you will you worthless, democrat pig.
I swear, who supports these damn SEIU/democrat party slimeballs?
Get f’d SEIU!
“They stayed with us all the way through HS, pretty gutsy in today’s PC world.”
Just a few short years ago the Boy Scouts were emblematic for all that was right with the US. The left have attempted to villify them throughout all of society and to poison their names, as they have done with anything that stands in the way of their perversions and attempts at government control/dependence.
God bless the Boy Scouts. And may they continue to do the same.
> That quote is usually applied to corporations - but exactly how does it not apply to unions?
I should have thought that self-evident. It applies to unions as much if not more than it does to corporations.
After all, what is a union but an incorporation of workers contracted to an entire industry? It is by very nature a monopoly if it can get its grubby claws into the industry deep enough.
Imagine if card check ever passes
(That's not their job!)
Both are Communist Front Organizations.
Another reason to oppose unions in all circumstances.
Life is hard, but to make it even harder, more expensive in time and money, of much poorer quality and completely corrupt you need a union.
Crazy Eddie types abound these days.
Balzano said Saturday the union is still looking into the matter and might cut the city a break.
GEE, Thanks. If I were resident, Mr. SEIU I would be pretty pissed at you, not the scouts!
Why would they complain about community service? Isn’t that what their dear leader wants?
(Censoring my comments)
“We are probably going to let this one go,” Balzano said .
Go eff yourself, you whore of Satan.
As Will Rogers once said, “The only thing wrong with the Boy Scouts is there ain’t enough of them.”
Sure they did but they also got the Democrats message that the Boy Scouts are evil and must be punished and put out of their misery because of their position on gay scoutmasters and the values they teach the boys. Typical progressive/liberal response to anything related to the Boy Scouts.
Thanks for the ping.
This sounds like a threat- against a Boy Scout? They are rotten thugs.
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