On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 05:09:18 -0600, "HeyBub"
wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
Because they weren't union.
"...crews from Alabama got the shock of their lives when other
workers in a coastal New Jersey town told them they couldn't lend a
hand without a union card."
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/02/ne...#ixzz2B3qPshgA
Several subsequent news reports say that the above was incorrect,
that help is not being refused because of lack of union membership.
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"In a two-page Oct. 29 contract, the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW) local 1049 demanded union dues, pay hikes and benefit
contributions from Florida electric utilities before its workers would be
permitted to help reconnect power to Long Island communities. The demand
came as Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the Northeastern United States,
stranding tens of millions without electricity."
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/03/am...#ixzz2BFbyS3gz
The article goes on to say that the union director subsequently placed a
'phone call withdrawing the demands in the letter.
BFD. The IBEW wanted the southern guys paid union scale and wanted to
pad their own pension and health funds as usual with the hourly cut.
Who do you think is paying for this?
You don't think these guys are unpaid "volunteers" do you?
Or that the Florida/Ala utilities aren't getting paid?
The Feds will pay for all this work. Taxpayers.
The Florida/Ala utility companies will charge the NY/NJ utilities all
costs- and then some for salaried bonuses.
The NY/NJ utilities will then squeeze the Feds like an orange.
The IBEW wants the juice going to all the workers and their own
pension and health funds. And to union management salaries.
Just good union business practice.
No different than other business, except the money is spread more
evenly.
It didn't work, so the southern guys will be up north working in
dangerous conditions at their southern pay scale.
Hope they work the per diem well.
Besides, it's nearly all bull**** anyway.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11...-claims/191101
All it takes is one right-wing cracker to start spreading bull****.
On this newsgroup, we have you to fill the role.
You're still doing it with "Turned back" in your subject.
Never happened. And even if it did at some small scale I wouldn't
give a **** anyway, Just an example of human frailty, like yours.