Non-union construction workers used to cut costs on new Teamsters building

Aug. 9, 2002 | L.M. SIXEL

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Texas_Jarhead]

HAHAHAHA... hypocrites...

[theDentist]

Oh, the irony!

:-)

[Shovelhead]

It makes one want to break into an old favorite from Al Gore's earliest childhood:

"Look for the union label..."

[gcruse]

I remember a few years ago when the office secretaries for some Union Goonery had to go to court to force the union to allow them to organize. I never did hear how it came out.

[dalereed]

"Look for the union label..."

Hopefully that's a bootprint on the guys ass!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ya know, it's funny - the Teamsters were the only union I ever liked being in... ;0)

They never bothered me, didn't try to indoctrinate me and my kids (unlike the SEIU did when I was in that - the whole 'Wobblies'-themed family picnic was the final straw...

[Vidalia]

Hawaii is steadily becoming a third world state thanks to the unions.

They still beat and attempt to kill scabs.

"Privatization" is worse than "nigger"...

[timestax]

Yeah!!hypocrits!!

[grundle]

http://www.paleadership.org/news/aflcio.html

From the American Spectator -- 3/14/01

www.spectator.org

America's Sweatshop -- AFL-CIO says 'do as I say, not as I do'

The AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C. has been undergoing extensive
interior and exterior refurbishment over the past 18 months. And given that
it is the AFL-CIO building, you'd assume the big laborites used all-union
help.

But apparently the AFL-CIO wasn't looking for the union label as diligently
as it expects other contractors to look. On several occasions, the union has
hired non-union electrical and construction help. "Only if they couldn't
find a local union shop to do it," says an in-house source. "But it did save
us some money." If anyone knows about the high cost of union help, it's the
AFL-CIO.

[blackbart.223]

"But it has become a sour moment for other labor leaders because the Teamsters didn't use union construction workers. They were told by the Teamsters that union contractors cost too much."

A case of do as I say not as I do if there ever was one. Unions screw everyone in the long run.

[brat]

"HAHAHAHA... hypocrites..."

Now why did they hand us this little piece of ammo...everytime they make trouble cause non union was hired, this article can be sited. Morons. I don't mind non-union. But too many are illegal aliens replacing American workers and thats just plain wrong.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***They were told by the Teamsters that union contractors cost too much. ***

Bump!

[FreedomPoster]

Ooh! This is just delicious! Bump!

[Twodees]

<> "I just can't believe the cost issue outweighed the right thing to do."

Welcome to the real world, sporty. Union BS drives costs up outrageously. A non-union restaurant equipment maker I dealt with once had orders for a large job in NYC and were required by their contract to use union made stainless steel components instead of producing them in their own shop. The problem was solved by buying decals from one of the officials of the union. $1,400.00 for decals instead of losing a little over $100,000.00 in profit doing their own fabrication was a no-brainer.

Unions cut their own throats with their corrupt practices.

[nygoose]

LOL!!

[gunnedah]

What goes around,come around. The only problem is living long enough to see it sometimes.

[Illbay]

FUUUUUUUUUUUNNY!