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Union troubled by Eagle Scout project in Allentown (SEIU)
The Morning Call ^ | 11/15/2009 | Jarrett Renshaw

Posted on 11/15/2009 10:55:31 AM PST by Born Conservative

In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.

Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union.

Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.

"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.

Balzano said Saturday he isn't targeting Boy Scouts. But given the city's decision in July to lay off 39 SEIU members, Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path.

"We would hope that the well-intentioned efforts of an Eagle Scout candidate would not be challenged by the union," said Mayor Ed Pawlowski in an e-mail Friday. "This young man is performing a great service to the community. His efforts should be recognized as such."

Balzano said Saturday the union is still looking into the matter and might cut the city a break.

"We are probably going to let this one go," Balzano said .

(Excerpt) Read more at mcall.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: allentown; boyscouts; bsa; bsalist; eaglescout; eaglescoutproject; kevinanderson; nickbalzano; obama; organizedlabor; pennsylvania; seiu; unions; unionthugs; unionwatch
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To: This_far

ACORN sets ‘em up in business, SEIU is the customer?

but we’re the ones who get screwed....


41 posted on 11/15/2009 12:45:44 PM PST by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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To: Born Conservative

The SEIU joins the ACLU for being Scum.


42 posted on 11/15/2009 12:46:40 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Born Conservative
"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails,' Balzano told the council."

Yeah, I bet you will you worthless, democrat pig.

I swear, who supports these damn SEIU/democrat party slimeballs?

43 posted on 11/15/2009 12:50:00 PM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Born Conservative

Get f’d SEIU!


44 posted on 11/15/2009 12:54:39 PM PST by onedoug
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To: brushcop

“They stayed with us all the way through HS, pretty gutsy in today’s PC world.”

Just a few short years ago the Boy Scouts were emblematic for all that was right with the US. The left have attempted to villify them throughout all of society and to poison their names, as they have done with anything that stands in the way of their perversions and attempts at government control/dependence.

God bless the Boy Scouts. And may they continue to do the same.


45 posted on 11/15/2009 12:55:16 PM PST by CaspersGh0sts
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

> That quote is usually applied to corporations - but exactly how does it not apply to unions?

I should have thought that self-evident. It applies to unions as much if not more than it does to corporations.

After all, what is a union but an incorporation of workers contracted to an entire industry? It is by very nature a monopoly if it can get its grubby claws into the industry deep enough.


46 posted on 11/15/2009 1:03:40 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Born Conservative
Disgusting display of arrogance by union thugs

Imagine if card check ever passes

47 posted on 11/15/2009 1:08:14 PM PST by Popman
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To: SandRat
SEIU has a problem with being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, or reverent.
(That's not their job!)

48 posted on 11/15/2009 1:12:19 PM PST by SmithL (The Golden State demands all of your gold)
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To: SandRat
The SEIU joins the ACLU for being Scum.

Both are Communist Front Organizations.

49 posted on 11/15/2009 1:45:06 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Habibi

Another reason to oppose unions in all circumstances.


50 posted on 11/15/2009 1:52:49 PM PST by gitmo (FR vs DU: n4mage vs DUmage)
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To: Born Conservative

Life is hard, but to make it even harder, more expensive in time and money, of much poorer quality and completely corrupt you need a union.


51 posted on 11/15/2009 2:00:11 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: Born Conservative; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...

Crazy Eddie types abound these days.


52 posted on 11/15/2009 2:02:48 PM PST by narses ("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.")
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To: Born Conservative

Balzano said Saturday the union is still looking into the matter and might cut the city a break.

GEE, Thanks. If I were resident, Mr. SEIU I would be pretty pissed at you, not the scouts!


53 posted on 11/15/2009 2:31:39 PM PST by JSDude1 (www.wethepeopleindiana.org (Tea Party Member-Proud), www.travishankins.com (R- IN 09 2010!))
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To: Born Conservative

Why would they complain about community service? Isn’t that what their dear leader wants?

(Censoring my comments)


54 posted on 11/15/2009 2:39:22 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Born Conservative

“We are probably going to let this one go,” Balzano said .

Go eff yourself, you whore of Satan.


55 posted on 11/15/2009 3:02:59 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Don Corleone
and both supported the election of the Great Pretender.
56 posted on 11/15/2009 3:32:14 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

As Will Rogers once said, “The only thing wrong with the Boy Scouts is there ain’t enough of them.”


57 posted on 11/15/2009 4:03:11 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: swheats

Sure they did but they also got the Democrats message that the Boy Scouts are evil and must be punished and put out of their misery because of their position on gay scoutmasters and the values they teach the boys. Typical progressive/liberal response to anything related to the Boy Scouts.


58 posted on 11/15/2009 5:43:39 PM PST by airedale
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To: Tribune7

Thanks for the ping.


59 posted on 11/15/2009 6:42:57 PM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare - slush fund scam that would make Bernie Madoff blush.)
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To: Born Conservative

This sounds like a threat- against a Boy Scout? They are rotten thugs.


60 posted on 11/16/2009 12:03:36 PM PST by PghBaldy (James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed Martin Luther King Jr.)
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