It most certainly does and should. Think about if you were a local who has been out of work for maybe several years and are hurting for a job and money, then YOU get passed over for an out-of-state volunteer. That's effing sucky as hell!!! THAT is the state trying to get away with a freebie is all at the expense of it's local citizens. THAT is sick.
Good job. Way to continue your standard of kneejerk defense of unions without bothering to actually read what was in the article.Whats the problem ? NJ has the if not the highest but one of the highest unemployment rates in the country they SHOULD hire NJians Union or Not before out of staters.
I do not agree that people should risk illness and death to get 2 weeks of temporary work for someone else. Maybe I'm wrong. I guess your point is the longer it takes to restore electricity, the longer the temporary unemployment lasts. I don't figure out until now you want the power out as long as possible to maximize local temporary employment potential.
How many weeks or months do you want families to be without power and fuel for the community good?
Claiming "freebies" for the community is at the expense of local citizens is nonsensical. Free is free.
You're stupid.
Do you really think that if all the local community "resources" were used up, that they would have turned down volunteers? I think it is because there are still skilled unemployed people that could handle the work but haven't been asked. If you can prove otherwise, then please post me a link.
Good job. Way to continue your standard of kneejerk defense of unions without bothering to actually read what was in the article.
Utility crews from several states East of the Mississippi River hit the road this week to volunteer their time and talents in Northeastern states hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. But crews from Alabama got the shock of their lives when other workers in a coastal New Jersey town told them they couldn’t lend a hand without a union card.
Derrick Moore, who works for Decatur Utilities in Decatur, Ala., told WAFF-TV in Huntsville that crews in Seaside Heights, N.J. turned him and his crewmates away, saying they couldn’t do any work there because they’re not union employees.
Another nonunion Decatur Utilities crew is idling in Roanoke, Va., waiting for instructions from Seaside Heights. The town asked them days ago for help, but later told the workers to stand down.
Read more: New Jersey town turns away Alabama volunteer utility workers because they're nonunion | The Daily Caller
Volunteer. Help. Assist those suffering. Turned away by Unions. People still struggling, suffering, freezing.
If they don't need them, then there is no issue on either side, is there?
Great argument. :lol:
Let's not also forget, that a lot of these things take place because of contracts that the state signed in agreement with the unions.
Let's not also forget, that a lot of these things take place because of contracts that the state signed in agreement with the unions.
Do you really think that if all the local community "resources" were used up, that they would have turned down volunteers? I think it is because there are still skilled unemployed people that could handle the work but haven't been asked. If you can prove otherwise, then please post me a link.
What's wrong with working 60 hours a week?
They won't rest until children are working 60 hour weeks.
Do you really think that if all the local community "resources" were used up, that they would have turned down volunteers? I think it is because there are still skilled unemployed people that could handle the work but haven't been asked. If you can prove otherwise, then please post me a link.
Utilities in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania so far have asked for 803 workers from Virginia's largest power company. Dominion Virginia Power has already dispatched 21 specialized network linemen to help in New York.
I agree. The problem is the contracts. I wrote that some time back on this thread.
The utility has been asking for mutual aid from other utilities and has sent 200 linemen from its Ohio operations to the East Coast and 1,000 support personnel.
Jersey Central Power & Light grabbed more than 200 linemen and 1,000 support personnel from an Ohio sister company…
"Connecticut Light and Power asked for 2,200 mutual aid lineman," LaRossa said.
Con Edison expects restoration to last throughout the week. The company has been securing mutual aid from utilities in several states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Massachusetts.
You can do it all day...true story. I dont know that you can make yourself look any sillier in the blind defense of OBVIOUS union stupidity...but you can certainly continue to reenforce it all day long.So? What does this prove? The thread is about Alabama workers being turned away from New Jersey. Your articles do NOT prove the reasons why these particular workers were turned away. I don't know what you think I'm spinning simply because I ask for a link, but whatever.
You can do it all day...true story. I dont know that you can make yourself look any sillier in the blind defense of OBVIOUS union stupidity...but you can certainly continue to reenforce it all day long.
The fact is that volunteer workers were turned away because they didnt have a union card. People are struggling and suffering but its more important to make some sort of idiotic stand about unions over the needs of the people.
So? What does this prove? The thread is about Alabama workers being turned away from New Jersey. Your articles do NOT prove the reasons why these particular workers were turned away. I don't know what you think I'm spinning simply because I ask for a link, but whatever.
Do you really think that if all the local community "resources" were used up, that they would have turned down volunteers?
Perhaps because those other workers were union workers. And how does that change the fact that you are now looking for ways to defend it? The articles state VOLUNTEERS are working throughout the east coast because those states and towns care more about the people huddling in a corner of their house than some idiotic union thug policy.Well, how does this story even make sense when the articles that were supplied stated that there are ALREADY other workers from other states present and doing work, or at least getting ready to. It says NOTHING about those workers being turned away. Why is that?
Those articles kind of contradict this thread. Don't you think?
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