Posted on 07/20/2008 4:48:58 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Unions have been decrying outsourcing for years. The word "outsourcing" has been used as a boogieman to blame declining union jobs upon for the last decade. Unions, for their part, claim to desire to stand up against outsourcing -- especially that of outsourcing jobs overseas -- and wish to push the home grown alternatives to outsourcing jobs, namely keeping them in the country and under the control of the union.
Yet what have we discovered here on the blog? Why that the nation's largest union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has outsourced the design of one of their own web pages to someone in Slovakia, that's what.
We've waited to report this story because the webpage in question presented a time sensitive situation. The SEIU was trying to create what they were calling the "Take Back the Economy Day" and that day was to be July 17th. The SEIU hoped to spur people to "take aim at the special perks and tax loopholes that buyout firms depend on to get rich," and get people involved to protest the success of "buyout firms" such as Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts.
Well, July 17th has passed us by and we here on the blog are not in danger of accidentally advertising their event in time to assist anyone in joining their July 17th effort.
That being said, here is what we found not long ago. The original SEIU webpage looked quite a bit different than the one that graced the web during the several days before their July 17th kick off day. The major overhaul was interesting in the respect of where the design of the page had come from....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Time for my union story.
A 83 year old golfing friend of mine, (fairways and greens, and he never missed a put under 10 feet, plus he’d shoot mid 80’s) anyway i digress.....
He was a retired union executive and his territory included San Diego. One day we were talking about San Diego and he said, “you know we walked a line there for 4 years straight.” Curious I asked, “Did THE MAN finally cave...(he knew I was conservative)...He said, “No, they went out of business.”
There you have it, union thinking at it’s finest.
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