Are the unions now too strong?
I saw strikers at the District 200 schools on Thursday, and then I read that construction on Route 47 in Huntley had stopped.
What's up?
If strikers have a beef against their own employer (whoever Jimmy Z) is, what does this have to do with highway construction and improvements? Why should the "Laborers' Chicago District Council and Affiliated Local Unions" be able to immobilize northeastern Illinois?
Don't they know there is a recession (depression?)? Just who are the "affiliated local unions"?
Why aren't they glad to have work, even if they only earn $30-40/hour (they get the "prevailing wage") for manning a shovel or standing around in the hot sun watching others work?
District 200 says teachers and summer classes will not be affected. Will the teachers cross the picket lines? Come Tuesday, I guess we'll see.
Attn. Jack Franks. How about putting a stop to this nonsense? Highway work needs to be done in the summer, as do the school renovation and improvement projects. Get them back to work now, so that school openings are not delayed!
1 comment:
Are unions too strong in 2010? No they are not.
Remember the plant shutdowns in 1937 in the Buick plant in Flint, MI, or union organizers being marched to their death along Southern Illinois railroad track.
Remember unions securing things like paid health care, and 8 hour days, and safety regulations and training???
Unions today are a joke, and people don't get paid what they are worth.
We are in a recession, that is true, but that doesn't speak to the last 20 years where real wages have dropped when compared with inflation and taxes.
Your schtick is to use the laborers are lazy idea to try and justify an untenable position ... good luck, that will only work with people who don't think, and employers who are trying to make a buck on the backs of normal people.
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