Union Members Outraged After White House Hires Non-Union Crew For Obama’s Birthday Bash

Gateway Pundit ^ | 8-3-11 | Jim Hoft

[Justaham]

Somebody’s Having a Birthday Party and You’re Not Invited.

That is, if you belong to a union.

In case you live under a rock and haven’t heard, Barack Obama turns 50 today. And, the place to be tonight is the Aragon. The party starts at 7:00. But don’t bother to show up if you’re a union member. The White House hired a non-union crew for the event tonight.

A confidential and trusted union source contacted me today to report that the crews called in to work Obama’s birthday bash are non-union. Union members are OUTRAGED that Obama would turn his back on them.

Curiously, my source added that the day rate is actually higher for the non-union members to do the work. It’s not a money issue. What gives?

[thefactor]

Waiters? Carpenters? Electricians? Circus clowns? What kind of labor does he need for this party?

[PhilosopherStone1000]

If I wasn’t suffering from outrage fatigue I’d find this really funny.

Dumb0’s contempt for everyone including his supporters is telling.

[RC2]

Not to worry. He’ll pay them back with “Shovel Ready Projects”, which are all Union jobs, or highway construction = Union jobs, bridges = Union jobs. It will all work out.

[GeronL]

The $38,500 pricetag per couple doesn’ bother them at all

[Sir Napsalot]

Please tell me it is funded by private citizens from their own pockets?

But of course we all know how Chicago style politics works, in essence, taxpayers like you and me are footing this bash.

I wish I get at least one Obama pinata to bash at.

[tcrlaf]

When YOU pay for it, you should be HAPPY to pay 25% or more over the manipulated “Prevailing Wage”.

When a DEMOCRAT pays for it, he’ll use the CHEAPEST labor he can find, and call you a:

“TEA-PARTY HOBBITT TERRORIST!” for pointing it out.

[Beowulf9]

50? Is he sure it isn’t 57?

[Seaplaner]

It's okay.

Aren't union members holding out for "green jobs" anyway?

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[madinmadtown]

Political event planners usually are extremely careful about this sort of SNAFU. If it isn't incompetence, which it might be, there is an even bigger political payback than to the unions.
It is difficult to move a folding chair in Chicago without greasing the palm of some union/machine member, usually two or three or maybe four for each of the legs.
The Obama administration has developed a reputation for abject incompetence, but something about this reeks of something else.

[elcid1970]

Hey, unions! You voted for Obama in disciplined lockstep droves.

How’s that hopey-changey workin’ out for youse?

;^)

[J40000]

"...and after I get done slippin' on all them guts... I goes back to fightin' Republicans!"