**Written by Doug Powers
Unions hiring non-union labor to walk picket lines certainly isn’t a rarity, but this story from Michigan has some bonus irony: The business a local carpenter’s union hired homeless people to picket is a company that is a partner of the same shelter in which some of those homeless picketers live. People are being paid in the neighborhood of $10 an hour to saw off the same branch on which they’re sleeping, but I guess on the bright side at least Big Labor’s hypocrisy and astroturfing measures are putting people to work.
Instead can’t the union get some teachers and Dems from the Wisconsin legislature to help walk the picket line? I hear they’re not doing anything these days:
There’s obviously some money to be made by organizing homeless picketers. Richard Trumka, where are you?
It’s gotten so private industry can’t afford union labor, taxpayers can’t afford union labor, unions can’t afford union labor — and apparently the DNC can’t afford union labor. Union leaders need to first sit down at the negotiating table with themselves.
(h/t The Blaze)
**Written by Doug Powers
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