Video – Caution: Big Labor hypocrisy at work

From my friends at CEI, a new video capturing Big Labor hypocrisy at work:
Should labor unions pay their protesters the wages and benefits that the unions demand of other employers? CEI labor policy attorney Vincent Vernuccio crashed a union protest in Washington, DC this week and questioned several people involved in the protest. The protestors – hired by a union, the Mid-Atlantic Region of Carpenters – appeared to not be compensated with the level of wages and benefits that the union itself demands of other employers – the protestors evidently lacked health insurance, for example (see 3:52).
Nor is it clear the protestors were union members (see 2:59). So, how could they even hope to benefit from any prospective wage or benefit concessions won from the business targeted by the protest? No one could (or would?) say what local union chapter they belonged to and seemed to even be confused by the question (see 1:28).
Watch:
Always look for the double-talking union label.
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Flashback March 2009: Hypocrisy, thy name is SEIU
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they’re just doing the jobs that american thugs won’t do.
Mildred: What’re you rebelling against, Johnny?
Johnny: Whaddya got?
Big labor Paladins: Have protest signs, will travel.
Have any of those picketers even held a hammer?
You don’t actually expect union labor to be out there in the hot sun doing something productive, do you?
They’re not school teachers, so at least the signs are spelled properly.
In other words, Union Labor inadvertently discloses why they need pay raises during this economic downturn….to hire more non-union protesters to shake down more businesses.
I am just surprised they did not use illegal immigrants…after all they do jobs Americans wont do and all.
Of course I’m a carpenter. I did some carpent yesterday.
$8 per hour cash? Welcome to the Owebama economy.
yes of course! When they were beating in some old woman’s head so they could have her pension check!
Lessee….the Obama administration funds unions with tax money they’ve taken from people who work for the companies that the unions are protesting, and the unions use it to hire rent-a-protesters who don’t work for those companies, so that the companies will pay more money to the people who do work for them (and have to raise thier prices), so the government will be able to tax them even more and give more to the unions to hire more protesters….
This would be laughable if it wasn’t all a big con game with our money.
A few years ago our Teamsters Local 988 sold their old union hall on I-10 near downtown Houston for a handsome amount of money. When it came time to build a new hall the local carpenters union got upset they would not hire union labor.
“Too expensive” said the Teamsters. Gotta love a Right to Work state.
http://www.hcaflcio.org/litn/vol71.htm
middle story
Yep. And sickle.
(laughs)
Sorry, folks, this is wayyy to rich to keep me from laughing.
The left-wing hypocrisy runs aloof under the Regime.
Okay, tell me what good comes from unions again. I can’t seem to understand their purpose….they want to drive employers out of business with their excessive demands, right? Okay, so wouldn’t that mean that they will lose their jobs. Maybe it’s me…sigh.
Ha! Love it.
Typical democrat/union rent a mob. I didn’t see Rev Sharpton or Jackson, so this rent a mob must be a union photo-op. The party of the little people! Give them minimum wage no benefit jobs walking a picket line in 94 degree heat while the union workers are sitting in their air conditioned offices. Just like the democrat party, run by multimillionaire limosine liberals like Kerry and Pelosi, with backing by the trial lawyers and wall street bankers, and BSing the people that they are for the little guy.
Unions, good at one point. Now just money hungry organizations who seek to control their members and influence elections based on the views of the Union leadership.
Those protesters should go on strike.
Guess who the AFL-CIO hired to build their new office building around Washington, DC? Yep, non-union labor. It was cheaper.
Guess where lefty Hollyweird filmed Brokeback Mountain? Yep, Canada. No union labor – it’s cheaper.
Guess why intelligent people laugh at liberal hypocrisy? Because if we weren’t laughing, we’d be crying knowing that this liberal stupidity is so pervasive.
The Wild One!
What prize do I win?
More potential trouble for SEIU on the horizon.
Q. What do lemmings look like?
A. The folks in the video who babble and allow themselves to be used.
(turns pockets inside out) Sorry, all I got is rabbit ears. You can thank a tax and spend liberal for that.
Astroturf protestors?
What I heard in the background…”Hey Hey…stammer-stammer…. we ain’t never used a hammer…Hey Hey…”
Let’s see…
The union pays non union members in cash to picket for unionization of a particular construction site. The union isn’t paying any payroll taxes on their “employees” and offers them no benefits, yet the property owner is “evil”?
Sound about right?
Dues paying…deuce laying…what’s the difference?