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 didnt 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 citys municipal union caught wind of this do-gooder breath of fresh air, it put up a stink at Tuesdays 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
I agree. Unions are useless.
Contradictory isn’t it.
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Anyone have any contact information on this Nick Balzano ass-clown????
This sounds like a threat to me . . . this Nick Balzano needs to be taught a lesson he won’t soon forget. I just wish I lived closer enough to do some good in this respect!
A few blows to the knees with a baseball bat would also do the job.
That’s the idyllic world the lawyers would like us to live in!
CA....
Obama's idea of "volunteering" is.....
.....to get paid for something you are forced to do
.....not freely doing something you chose to do.
You see, the RATS have changed the definition.
That is precisely how it came across to me as well, snide, insulting tone, even if I didn't hear it said directly.
I agree with the rest of your post as well, bad enough he thinks to hassle or intimidate a young man, but for heaven's sake, a child, elementary school Cubbie??
More and more, union = goon
Translated from the Union Thug language: "Nice trail ya got their kid, be a shame something should happen to it."
Also
SEIU (Allentown City) 473/395A Nick Balzano
610-437-1211
from... http://www.lehighvalleyclc.org/affil.htm
also here:
Add me to the list of people who despise this Balzano idiot. He is a low piece of garbage.
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