Court Rejects City Law protecting Janitors (PA Supreme Court smacks down SEIU)

Pittsburgh Post Gazette ^ | December 30, 2009 | Paula Reed Ward

[Buckeye McFrog]

A Pittsburgh ordinance designed to protect janitors from losing their jobs in Downtown office buildings violates Home Rule law. [snip] City Council enacted an ordinance in 2004 governing building complexes with more than 100,000 square feet of floor space. If the owner switches security, janitorial, maintenance, stationary engineering or window-washing contractors, the new firm has to hire the old firm's workers.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Pittsburgh City Council passed this law at the behest of the SEIU, when a building owner switched janitorial contracts after the prior firm had been organized. Article goes on to detail some whining by SEIU officials and the lone dissenting judge about how heartless this ruling is during a recession. (apparently bad, unconstitutional law is OK when people are hurting..) Lilke most urban city councils, Pittsburgh's is overflowing with fringe liberal activists.

[SoFloFreeper]

Here is the web site for the CURRENT crook council in Pittsburgh:

CROOK COUNCIL IN PITTSBURGH, PA

Am looking for pics/list of the crooks who were in power in 2004, when this utterly ignorant law was passed. If anyone in PA can find the info, please do...

[SoFloFreeper]

Council reps in Districts 1, 2, and 3 were elected after the idiots in 2004 put the law in place...am still looking...

[SoFloFreeper]

This guy has been on the council since 2001. Don't know how he voted on this STUPID law, though...

[SoFloFreeper]

Current Council President...was sworn in January of 2004. I'm bettin' this guy was key to the IGNORANT LAW being passed....

[Buckeye McFrog]

They should have called it the Southpointe and Cranberry 101% Office Suite Occupancy Law of 2004...

[SoFloFreeper]

It APPEARS as though this councilperson has only been there for one term, and "Payne was removed last month as chair of the city's Democratic Party Committee..." for her role in messing with the Liberal Machine. She says she is trying for state office later this year.

[SoFloFreeper]

Apparently this guy was on Pittsburgh's school board in 2004, so he likely didn't take part...

[Buckeye McFrog]

running your link thru the Wayback Machine, looks like the other culprits at the time would have been:

- Luke Ravenstahl (the current Boy Mayor)
- Alan Hertzberg (long-standing ties to ties to the liberal
activist legal community)
- Gene Ricciardi
- Sala Udin (sought a state pardon in 2006 for a long list
of violent crimes dating back to the 1960’s)
- Len Bodack
- Twanda Carlisle (served sentence and curretly on parole
for theft by deception and misappropriating city funds)

and of cource Bill Peduto who would fit in very nicely with the City Councils in San Francisco or Berkeley.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

I'm hereby applying for the FR patent on the terms DemoGRAFT, DEMOCROOK and DEMOstroy.

[Buckeye McFrog]

this is Pittsburgh....small potatoes stuff, I’m sure, compared to Chicago, Philly, or the Five Boroughs...

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“this is Pittsburgh....small potatoes stuff, I’m sure,..”

True, but coming soon anywhere a DemonRAT politician may be bought or sold.

[SoFloFreeper]

I hate using it as a primary source, but according to Wikipedia, this guy has been there since 2001.

As an aside, this liberal really likes to toot his own horn!

Methinks he'll be sick of Pittsburgh soon and lookin' for a national office. It'd be nice to see him run and get defeated...go back to "political consulting"...he calls himself a "reform Democrat", which means he is a liberal who uses modern words.

[SoFloFreeper]

btw, GREAT idea running it through Wayback. I hadn’t thought of that!

[SoFloFreeper]

The Rev. was NOT on City Council in 2004.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Man, talk about “Payne”—looking at her pic is “Payne-ful”

I bet she’s as smart as she is pretty......

[ridesthemiles]

I will repeat:

SEIU is the most dangerous ‘Union” this country has ever spawned.