Posted on 11/16/2009 3:19:56 PM PST by Biggirl
More mischief from the SEIU?
SEIU members think they are entitled to work and make money. Of course, if there is no government money to fund projects and volunteers step in and take up the slack, union thugs are demanding all work stop. It’s not fair!
Cry me a river. From Jarrett Renshaw of the Morning Call.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at radioviceonline.com ...
So much for service. I guess community organizing is only good for leftists.
This reminds me of the 2006 story out of Philadelphia when the plumber’s union freaked out because a skyscraper was going to be built with urinals that did not require water to flush. With no water required, they did not need to install pipes – not good for the union members.
Limbaugh frequently reminds us a deal was brokered where the plumbers got to install the pipes anyway, even though they would not be used. Great deal for the union.
Screw ‘em. None of them have what takes to be an Eagle Scout anyway. It just pisses them off to see anyone be an achiever. I put well over 200 hrs in my Eagle project, and that was before the first board was cut or the the first shovel of dirt was turned. That was almost 40yrs ago.
Obama`s people think the Scouts wear the wrong brand of brown shirts.
While visiting the source of the story, I noticed their poll and had to respond:
My submission at http://radioviceonline.com/contact/
Despite the reporting of the communist thugs SEIU attacking the volunteer work of a U.S. Boy Scout, the media still insist on presenting a biased perspective, not so much in the above report, but in the poll posted on your pages, 16 Nov 09:
== quote ==
“Will Sarah Palin ignite the war between the sexes?
> Yes ... and ride it all the way to the White House
> No ... this is just temporary. She is not a legitimate candidate.
== end quote ==
The intellectual dishonesty of providing only two answers, neither allowing an honest non-feminist/misogynist who believes she IS a legitimate candidate to reflect their opinion honestly.
Evil like this is why you, the media, are steadily moving to irrelevancy in the minds of thinking Americans.
Hey, I know, lets fire SEIU and hire the boy scouts.
Should host a impromptu tea party / trail cleanup / anti seiu protest there.
Get a couple hundred angry tea party to stand in solidarity with the scouts...
Great idea!
SEIU hates Boy Scouts
As a former(recovering) union member(Laborers International) I can tell you the only language any of these thugs understand and respect is a good old-fashioned curb-stompping. The very idea these goons would allude to intimidating a young kid doing something as American as earning and Eagle Scout Badge. Real tough guys.
Why are they griping? The kid does their work for them, and they get to spend more time sitting on their butts.
I hate SEIU
Too true....the Boy Scouts show them up, show them for what they are.
Selfish, Pompous, Money Grubbing, Arrogant, Sorry Sons of Beelzebub.
Good description.
(That's not their job!)
See reply #16
This 53 yr old scout hates SEIU so I guess we’re even.
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