BTW, the administration declining to comment, ROFL. Expected. Can I say I am getting tired of organized labor.
I am a former military chick, my dad gave the ultimate sacrifice for this country, I am married to one of the US Army's finest officer's WHERE is our union. OK I am stretching the conversation. But, our military put's their lives on the line, we do get benefits but they come with many years served, and a congress representative get's one hell of a pension after I believe 4 (it may be 6 ) years. I suppose nowadays they might feel in harm's way when they attend a town hall meeting and there are tea party member's in the audience.
Sorry this ticks me off. I am reasonable but if you aren't a union member you are a second class citizen and yet they say it is about the middle class. We ARE ALL AMERICANS and should be REPRESENTED. imho
This is administration isn't off the people it is by this administration of Chicago.
The fed's get larger and the private sector remains stagnate.
So FED UP in Ft. Leavenworth, KS
Bump
More central planning from the WH to help his union thugs.
Pray for America
PING
Thought this might be of interest!
Davis-Bacon= union pork
Unions are communist. Don’t buy communist.
So Davis Bacon isn’t enough?
Well the hypocrisy is deep and thick! If a bid has too much payroll then it is non competitive.
Amazing how the fedgov wants to drastically cut back on the use of expats in the mideast in favor of lowly paid third country nationals.
Paty of the “No Brutha Left Behind” program
Cloward-Piven.
In the old Soviet Union union members were better compensated than medical doctors and other highly-educated professionals.
I don't know what makes them think they are the only ones with rough guys working for them.
This is nothing new. Non union contractors have to pay either state or Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rates that are similar to union wages on government projects. Been that way for years.
I think the demise of unions, has lead to increased immigration, in particular the illegal kind, and low skilled kind. My example is the meat packing/ag industry here in Iowa. 30 years ago, meat packing was highly unionized. Working there were mostly high school educated white guys. They weren't getting rich, but they were salt of the earth people that were at not a negative to their communities.
In 1984 I had a buddy that was making like 11 bucks an hour at a packing plant in Sioux City, Iowa. He was union, and that was decent coin at that time. Then they broke the union, and knocked his pay down to about $8.50 an hour. He said screw it, and went to tech school for electronics, where I met him.
Fast forward to 2010, and about 75% of the meat packing workforce is Mexican, and the starting wage is less now than that union pay rate in 1984, 26 years ago.
Meat packing work is tough work, and anybody with half a brain won't do it, not for those crap wages. Who will, a bunch of barely literate Mexicans. And this isn't a rant against Mexicans, they work hard, and are doing honest work. That's super. But Sioux City, corn fed Iowa looks like Juarez these days. And that is flat out because the meat packing unions got busted.
So if construction, which is heavy on manual labor, can pay a decent wage, that increases the talent pool of workers, and more people with a command of the English language will stay in the construction biz, lessening the odds of a lesser talented immigrant from taking the job.