Posted on 11/03/2012 1:53:07 PM PDT by lowbridge
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, it seems to be pretty clear that residents of New York City and the surrounding areas could use all the help they can get.
However, a Davisburg man said some people in the area are more interested in “protecting their turf” than in distributing those supplies to the masses.
Mike James, an independent trucker, said he and three other truckers were told to haul a load of transformers to the city to replace equipment anticipated to be lost in the storm.
James, two men from Holly and a Flint man arrived in the city Tuesday night and slept in their trucks before attempting to deliver the 144 transformers to emergency workers.
When they arrived Wednesday, they were turned away by Con Edison employees because they were not union workers.
(Excerpt) Read more at theoaklandpress.com ...
Ummm, why do you sympathize with them? After all, it was the good citizens of NY who voted in closed shop labor laws. Reap the whirlwind, something like that.....
Pennsylvania also lost power.
Something tells me there never was any transformers.
“Anything they need, we will be there. And we’re going to cut through red tape. We’re not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules.”
—Barack Obama
The local lefty rag had an article about the power line workers from Alabama who were turned away by the ConEd/IBEW people in NY. The NYT-bylined article lied about what happened and said that the people from Alabama “weren’t turned away, they simply misunderstood what the NYConEd/IBEW employees were telling them.”
If folks sit in a dark, cold house long enough, MAYBE, just maybe they will put the blame where it really belongs.
Unions are organized crime. But the Mafia has more scruples, in comparison.
They want the relief workers to pay union dues for the privelege of helping
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All the people in NY and NJ without power can get together for tomorrows NFL game from E Rutherford NJ...Giants game starts at 4:25PM....Just look at all of those bright lights lighting the field for 3 hours!
I know. But I did.lol
Somewhere today I read where Bloomberg refused the assistance of the national guard, indicating they would better be used elsewhere as the NYPD could handle the situation. (I am unable to locate the link just now...)
Well, didn't mayor Michael Bloomberg set the tone by turning away the National Guard?
Are these of the same union who refused to plow the streets in the blizzard a couple of years ago?
People filmed the union-member-driven snow plows going up and down the street with their plows raised, not touching the snow.
IIRC, people died when ambulances couldn’t get through the snow covered streets.
Nothing ever happened to those POS and these POS won’t be touched either.
I wonder how many people in need support their local govt votewise and support the way that unions do business.
Let the bastards starve, freeze or die from thirst, you got what you deserve.
The folks most affected by union petulance aren’t aware of this turf nonsense since they don’t have power, they aren’t reading the web or watching tv (if it’s being reported at all).
An expose complete with a running list of these incidents should be prepared and released in a coordinated manner online once power is restored.
It’s funny how “unionized or union dues employees” forget that they are not “union employees”, they are in fact company employees. It is not the union that pays their salary, it is the company that pays their salary and it is the union that, because they think they are entitled to it, takes some of their salary in dues as well as penalties if they don’t obey their union overseer and hold signs for the unions choice of candidate.
I guess you might consider it comforting to know that New Yorkers are as bone head stupid as folks in New Orleans.
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