Posted on 09/15/2005 12:57:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Sleezy unions, looking to profit on this fiasco.
THERE IS NO PREVAILING WAGE in a city with no citizens.
LOL......I am just tired enough for that to make sense to me!
bttt
tell mr. sweeney to set up a picket line, i know a good spot in new orleans by a broken levee...
In the end, Wortham believes it will be the contractors who will win.
In the end, taxpayers will end up footing much of the bill . At the end of the day, it's the taxpayers who will win.
Unions are corrupt organizations who do not benefit their workers by bringing reasonable and safe working conditions like the early 20th century. San Diego has been hard hit by union's invasive and destructive involvement in politics. They're driving the city into bankruptcy with "illegal" pensions. At the state level, they've stolen hundreds of millions from member's paychecks to assault Arnold's attempts in saving California from turning into another Democrat socialist wasteland.
I want a bill sent to Rep. Jefferson.
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Congressman Jefferson Must Resign
Editorial/Op-Ed
by Jennifer Monroe
NEW ORLEANS, LA -- (OfficialWire) -- 09/15/05 -- On September 2five days after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast Congressman William Jefferson (shown here), who represents New Orleans and is a senior member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, asked the National Guard that night to take him on a tour of the flooded portions of his congressional district. A five-ton military truck and a half dozen military police were dispatched.
According to Lt. Col. Pete Schneider of the Louisiana National Guard, during the tour, Jefferson asked that the truck take him to his home on Marengo Street. According to Schneider, this was not part of Jefferson's initial request.
While many of Jefferson's constituents and fellow-citizens were dying, the water unfortunately reached to the third step of the Congressman's house and so the vehicle pulled up onto the front lawn of his home so he wouldn't have to walk in the water. The eight-term Democratic congressman then went into the house alone, while the soldiers waited on the porch for about an hour.
According to an ABC News report, Jefferson emerged with a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator, which the enlisted men loaded up into the truck.
Jefferson must resign immediately. There is simply no excuse for any elected official to have used public resources (intended to save lives), to retrieve personal possessions, while people he is supposed to represent suffered and died.
http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20510
How much did unions spend on the 2004 elections? How much have unions donated to the victims of Katrina?
Union talk for we want free reign for pay-without-work and every other scam we're famous for. That's what "decent wages" means to the connected Sweeney and the rest of the union scum.
Unions have become an expression of corrupt socialism in the U.S.
No wonder they vote as a block Democratic.
As I stated in the previous post, Democrat elitist really don't care about their people. What they do care about is to be much, much better than them and to represent (pimp) them for their (the elitist) benefit.
"Union leaders angry
Labor union officials were outraged."
You mean they might withhold their support for Republicans in the future? Goodness. Give in to their demands we must.
That might fall some, but not to the $5.25 minimum wage. The market will guarantee that. There are fewer electricians than shovel monkeys and they'll need scads of them for all the buildings needing to be rebuilt or rehabbed.
F! the unions.
Workers have a choice to accept the offered wage rate or not. The market (supply/demand for labor) will ultimately determine a fair wage.
If enough workers decide $5.15 is too little, it will force the contractor to offer more attractive wages to get the required amount of worker.
Simple supply/demand economics.
I believe the prevailing wage in NO is around $9.00 per hour, or $18k per year if my math is correct.
For better or worse, unions brought about the modern 40 hour workweek and other things that would be quite strange and wonderful to someone stepping out of the 19th century into today's world. Unions that go too far nowadays don't need to be killed; they will effect their own suicide.
Well to be a class act he should have told the guys to go save some people while he packed, then come back in an hour and get him and his stuff. But I can't blame him for retrieving the material if it was gummint business. At that point nobody knew if there were going to be more levee breaks and even higher flood waters.
So, what's your opinion on unions?
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