Posted on 08/20/2010 5:59:26 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Most rank and file union workers (at least the manufacturing type guys rather than the government (non-) worker unions) that I know can be pretty conservative. They supported Regan and they helped elect W twice.
My bet is that the union leadership will not force the issue. Obama has not done manufacturing workers any favors. The NYC Public Safety Unions will have a conniption if this thing is built there.
My fondest hope is that the construction union workers refuse to build it and that Holder starts a suit against them for religious discrimination.
More liberals would probably support non-union labor to build this mosque than would support opening a non-union Wal-Mart in Manhattan.
Being union workers, they will do what Obama wants them to do.
oh darn! More crazy right-wing racists! /s
Nearly 20% unemployment in the construction industry right now—somebody will build it.
Yes!
there’s always those who will “do the work American’s won’t do”
Yes we can.
Finally, something good coming from the unions!
Frustrated Cargo.
They’ll just hire the illegals who do the work Americans won’t do, if they’ll convert! You can’t have an Infidel engineeer, architect, or workman befouling your holy mosque, can you?
That would be a good name for it: the Abomination of Desolation Mosque.
From what I have been reading, the construction workers are at 23% unemployment.
There are strict rules too. If you don’t work 500 hours you lose your benefits.
Things are very bad, despite the shovel ready bull that was shovelled at us to make the stimulus more acceptable.
New tagline...
76 24 0 no change after thirty minutes!
Good! If muslims want it, they should build it themselves and not expect other *religions* to build it for them. Oh, and they should fund it themselves....Better yet, they should build it in their own country.
The NY Daily News poll (running as a sidebar to this thread’s article) made me laugh out loud. Better chance of having 76% of America think the Detroit Lions will go 16-0 and win the Superbowl this season. No way three-quarters of Americans—or New Yorkers, for that matter—are fine with this 9-11 Islamic Terrorist Victory Mosque at Ground Zero.
Now, 76% of those responding -thus far- may have said that. The poll does not display the number of respondents. A handful of early-arriving community organizer types with their marching orders probably skewed the poll. Or, the site may have a glitch in the software that tallies the responses. But no way, no-how, do these results in any way reflect reality. Way too many other polls and evidence to the contrary.
Nail/head. Yep, they'll jump right on it.
Yeah...my first reaction, too. I sympathize with the need for more work, but putting Islamderthals ahead of patriotism isn’t going down well in the union hall.
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