My husband, who is Union (our biggest disagreement) has been saying this since the issue came up. Get to the rank and file Union members and get them to say they will not work on the site.
Especially the Unions who built the WTC.
NY is a closed shop State, which means you can not perform work without being a member of the Union. If the rank and file goes against the Union heads on this, they aren’t going to be able to go out and grab illegals, bring into the Union to work the job. They’d have to go through the apprentice programs at a minimum and they’d lose their “real” members if they were to do that. Plus, you can’t work without supervisors. There would be hell to pay if the leadership even suggested something like that.
For once, it’s in our interest to work with the Union rank and file members to support them and to put pressure on the Union leadership not to work on this project.
Excellent point
Many of those ironworkers worked for months rescuing the dead bodies from the debris,searching for survivors. It was a gruesom task someone had to do it and it required ironworkers becauseof the pile of structural steel that had to be removed piece by piece to find the bodies. Those ironworkers and others will never forget. They will not allow this nasty gesture by the muslims who did this dastardly deed to be built.
“NY is a closed shop State, which means you can not perform work without being a member of the Union.”
If union rank and file oppose this I wouldn’t be suprised if NY became a right to work state. Heck, in another year most construction workers and contractors will be unemployed anyway. With no one investing there will be no work.
closed shop doesn’t mean you have to be a member of the union, but if you are in a job represented by unions, you have to pay part of the dues
The rank and file could also boycott any project the architects and engineers working on the plans for the mosque might be involved in.
If we can get the architects and engineers to boycott the project, we will really have something going to stop them. Freedom can be effective if people just say “no”!, and do not even try to explain.
Love your tag line. I live in California and have contributed to Allen West’s campaign. Wish we had some like him out here.