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The Union, Delco And Lost Chances
BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 9-6-10

Posted on 09/06/2010 2:15:32 PM PDT by Tribune7

Delaware County chipped in $34 million to build a soccer-only stadium in Chester for a privately owned team that couldn't even work in Chester or Delco into its name.

The Delco Union. Probably not appropriate especially for the point about to be made.

The Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City is under fire by conventioneers for the union-inspired, loanshark price structure to set up exhibits, even for work that could reasonably be done by the exhibitor himself. To use a laptop for an audiovisual display requires the involvement of a stagehand at $37 per hour. To use it to register visitors to the booth requires an electrician at $46 per hour, To erect the booth requires a carpenter at $107 per hour.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: goons; overpaidgoons; uniongoons; unions

1 posted on 09/06/2010 2:15:34 PM PDT by Tribune7
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2 posted on 09/06/2010 2:16:43 PM PDT by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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To: Tribune7

Costs more in NYC .................. !!!


3 posted on 09/06/2010 2:20:01 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Tribune7

Personally experienced this twice in last three weeks. Internet on trade show floor for two days $850(DC) and $1200 (LV).


4 posted on 09/06/2010 2:20:55 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: Tribune7

That’s one ugly website.


5 posted on 09/06/2010 2:26:40 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Tribune7

To turn the economy around a lot of Unions both public and private need to be constrained. It is them or the rest of us.


6 posted on 09/06/2010 2:31:14 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Back in the 70's I was doing a trade show in Manhattan and not only did you have the outrageous union rates, you had to bribe the schedulers with a fistful of fifties or the show would be three days old and your stuff would still be in crates {and you weren't allowed to unpack it yourself}.

I really hated those lazy, corrupt union bastards.

7 posted on 09/06/2010 3:52:30 PM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: Tribune7

The exhibitors need to raise holy hell with the exhibition companies about this.

There are plenty of convention palaces where the unions do not rule.


8 posted on 09/06/2010 3:53:07 PM PDT by upchuck (If we let the federal gvmnt live beyond its means, we will soon have to live below ours. ~Joe Miller)
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To: Tribune7

Once upon a time I worked at Ma Bell, here in the Midwest. On a trip to a NJ location, I was informed that in order to change out a PC card in a computer I was working on, would require the services of a IBEW or CWA member.

I was stunned. It would take me longer to request such service than to swap the card, and that doesn’t even include the wait times.

Thankfully, I didn’t have those issues at my little Midwest outpost.


9 posted on 09/06/2010 4:08:07 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: upchuck
The exhibitors need to raise holy hell with the exhibition companies about this. There are plenty of convention palaces where the unions do not

Well, duh! Take the conventions elsewhere. Make it a priority to never set up in these union places.

10 posted on 09/06/2010 4:12:40 PM PDT by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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To: upchuck
There are plenty of convention palaces where the unions do not rule.

I honestly don't know why anyone would have a convention in Philadelphia.

11 posted on 09/06/2010 4:17:03 PM PDT by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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I honestly don't know why anyone would have a convention in Philadelphia.

San Francisco was terrible a few years back and probably still is.

12 posted on 09/06/2010 4:27:52 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Tribune7

It is not much better on in the western part of PA either. They do the same crap at David L. Lawrence Conv. Ctr. here in Pittsburgh.


13 posted on 09/06/2010 4:40:33 PM PDT by PAMadMax (Islam is a disease....)
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To: USS Alaska

The scummiest parts of the Unions last the longest. What was good has largely died out replaced with grifters and radicals.


14 posted on 09/06/2010 5:30:47 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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