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To Protest Hiring of Nonunion Help, Union Hires Nonunion Pickets
WSJ Online ^
| July 16, 2010
| Jannifer Levitz
Posted on 07/19/2010 8:03:20 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
WASHINGTONBilly Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier, is looking for work.
Fortunately for him, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council says work is being done with nonunion labor.
"For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else," explains Vincente Garcia, a union representative who is supervising the picketing.
So instead, the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage$8.25 an hourto walk picket lines. Mr. Raye says he's grateful for the work, even though he's not sure why he's doing it. "I could care less," he says. "I am being paid to march around and sound off."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: carpenters; picket; scab; union
A 51 year old bike courier who "could care less". No wonder he's unemployed. But there's not a bit of irony anywhere in evidence here.
To: Past Your Eyes
Billy Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier Seriously? 51 years old and a career bike courier? Wow.
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:11:56 AM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(You say you want a revolution, well, you know ... we'd all love to see the plan.)
To: Past Your Eyes
They can't get Union controlled employees to march in a picket line because it is to difficult for them to find a parking spot? Geeees they are certainly dedicated union thugs!
In reality they are just to expensive for the Unions to use.
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:15:49 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Past Your Eyes
This guy should fight for Union wages./sarc
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:20:11 AM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
To: Past Your Eyes
Protest organizers and advocacy groups are reaping an unexpected benefit from continued high joblessness. With the national unemployment rate currently at 9.5%, an "endless supply" of the out-of-work, as well as retirees seeking extra income, are lining up to be paid demonstrators, Maybe someday one of these paid protesters can also grow up to be pres__ent of the U.S.
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:20:29 AM PDT
by
YankeeReb
To: Past Your Eyes
This is happening in Albuquerque too. Recent protest of small construction companies using nonunion workers was conducted by a union from California and used nonunion protestors. Hmmmmm ... guess hyprocracy doesn’t matter as long as you get what you want. Control.
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:21:24 AM PDT
by
Jackson57
To: Past Your Eyes
Two faced, forked tongue, back stabbing, doublespeak from both sides of their face alert.
The fact is, union people are lazier than average. And the longer they’re in a union the lazier they get. Life becomes more about how to game the system than to make your employer money.
Actual grownups realize (and accept) that work is all about making money for your employer. That’s what makes an employee valuable.
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:24:29 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: Past Your Eyes; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; FromLori; Gilbo_3; ...
RE :"
Fortunately for him, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council says work is being done with nonunion labor. ...So instead, the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage$8.25 an hourto walk picket lines. Mr. Raye says he's grateful for the work, even though he's not sure why he's doing it. "I could care less," he says. "I am being paid to march around and sound off."
This story was posted last week, still funny sounding. Maybe we need to unionize these (non-union protest) workers working for the unions. Imagine if they went on strike? Shouldnt they be paid a living wage by the unions? A fair wage? Unions always claim that all workers get a raise when a employer is forced to give a worker a raise.
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:26:14 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
To: Past Your Eyes
Look on the good side of this, no non-union union protester is going to get violent for $8.50 an hour. How many of the non-union union protesters were illegal aliens is what I want to know.
To: Past Your Eyes
A gang - formally know as a "union", hires people to protest and intimidate companies who don't hire "union" members, because they don't contribute protection money to the "gang".
Unions - as I have said many times, and have experienced - are nothing more than sanctuaries for mediocrity. Unions can turn the most eager, and ambitious workers into robots totally dependent on the "union" for their very existence.
Meanwhile, "union" leaders are living high, wide, and handsome on the dues paid by the "members", aqs well as who-knows-what extortions it derives from the company and other sources...like, obamaland.
I hate to see young people join these outfits and have the lifeblood sucked out of them, mortgaging their life and independent spirit to these bloodsuckers.
Unions have become mafia protection rackets, and with all of tghe labor laws in place, and anti-discrimination laws, there is really no need for "unions" in modern day America. That is why so many people are fleeing to the right-to-work states...unionism is a national failure.
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:32:05 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(It doesn't matter what they call us, only what we answer to....)
To: sickoflibs
I love the smell of irony in the morning...it’s like coffee and bacon, only...different.
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:32:52 AM PDT
by
MaggieCarta
(I'm never fully dressed without a snark.)
To: libertarian27
“This guy should fight for Union wages./sarc”
Solidarity (not quite) forever. Don’t look for the union label.
To: secondamendmentkid
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posted on
07/19/2010 8:53:56 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
To: Past Your Eyes
"For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else,"
How is it any better for the scab picketers?
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posted on
07/19/2010 9:49:18 AM PDT
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: Past Your Eyes
Hey, can a non-union picket line be a union picket line? I don’t think so.
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posted on
07/19/2010 9:53:24 AM PDT
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: sickoflibs
I searched using the whole headline and nothing turned up. Do you have a link to the previous thread?
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posted on
07/19/2010 10:22:30 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Let’s go down and organize these poor fools! Should be fun!
(remember to bring self-defense implements....)
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