Posted on 11/17/2009 9:45:08 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Union Bullies Boy Scout for Dastardly Good Deed 17-year-old's 250 of community service angers Allentown union By TERESA MASTERSON Updated 12:30 PM EST, Tue, Nov 17, 2009
A 17-year-old Boy Scout worked more than 200 hours to clear a path in his local park so that people could enjoy walking and biking along the river.
Bad move Boy Scout. Now grown men who didn’t get around to doing it for a paycheck are after you.
Kevin Anderson, a junior at Southern Lehigh High School, a varsity soccer player and a Boy Scout hoping to get his Eagle Scout badge, spent 250 hours over several weeks creating a path on the partially complete 165-mile Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor that runs through Kimmets Lock Park in Allentown, reports The Morning Call.
"I decided to do my part in completing this part of the trail. In that way, others could enjoy walking along the river, without having to walk on the busy road," Anderson said in an e-mail, says The Morning Call.
But once the city’s municipal union caught wind of this do-gooder breath of fresh air, it put up a stink at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Unions said its considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing such good, free-of-charge, work to happen.
"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council, reports The Morning Call.
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Unions suck
Unions are wearing out their welcome too.
When are Democrats going to figure out that the dues money isn’t worth it.
I hope this makes news big time!!
It's getting more and more like Alice going down the rabbit hole.
But, but, but...didn’t Dear Leader himself proclaim that ‘volunteerism’ is good and expected. Or is the volunteerism just under the auspices of ACORN and the Committe to Re-Elect The Won??? (Sometimes I crack myself up)...
So the purple shirted mafia is taking on the BSA and Eagle Scouts.
Yet another ‘smart’ move from our Smartest President eveh...
SEIU thugs, Obama’s goons.
Gosh. I thought the Bamster was all for “community service”! Oh, yeah. Not honest service, just thugish, overpaid union “service”. Got that?
The boyscout should sue the union for scale wages at 250 hours and calim it all in one week, that way he would get time and a half after 8 hours, double time after twelve and triple time for Saturday and Sunday.
Gee....maybe the union should sue this boy scout!
Stay classy, SEIU!
“When are Democrats going to figure out that the dues money isn’t worth it.”
That will come when the amount of money they can get from unions is less than the amount from another group, and when they have to choose.
Typical Union SCUMTHUGGERY!
Same thing happened here in SoCal a few years ago...A Boy Scout refurbished dozens of bus stops for his Eagle Scout project...Unionscum filed a complaint, and the city had to pay the workers who would have been paid if they did the work. These people are evil, an unions should be outlawed.
Thugs -
“We’ll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails,” Balzano told the council, reports The Morning Call.
You just do that, Mr Balzano. You “look into” this kid. What, you gonna send some of your guys over to his house to get in his face? Maybe to his school? Or church, maybe you can get to him in church.
If I was in this community, I’d say “BRING IT ON” you asshat. Show us what you got, tough guy.
I'll be looking for you to fall down some stairs, DIRTBAG!
Explain to me why unions aren’t a violation of anti-trust law (or government, for that matter).
Not that I believe in the concept of anti-trust....but a bad law should be consistently applied, otherwise it will never be tested.
Hopefully the kid got approval from someone before starting the project. Unions not withstanding, there are always liability issues and such to be worked out in case he would have gotten hurt or someone else getting hurt because of what he did.
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