We’re in the midst of a really bad recession. High school kids are competing with 50 year old’s for jobs.
These guys are making 40K a year (with access to health care and pensions) operating a machine that squirts filling into Twinkies. And they decide this is a good time to strike?!?[/quote]
It could be worse. You could be living in Long Island without power for 3 weeks…LIPA is state owned by the way…..Oops, did I say that…
Amid Sandy’s devastation, Long Island union sent written demand to Florida utilities: Pay dues or stay home….
The Florida Municipal Electric Association is a statewide trade group that represents 34 separate utility companies. The letter, Moline said, was sent to Florida’s nonunion power companies.
“We had crews ready to go on Monday when the storm hit,” he told TheDC. ”We had dozens of line workers ready to go. There have been hundreds of line workers who have been told, ‘We don’t want you unless you’re part of the union.’ And as a result, people in New York and New Jersey are having the power turned on slower than everywhere else.”
“The word we were getting all week was that New York was short by hundreds of [electric] linemen,” he told TheDC. “Well, okay. We’ve got them. Florida is two days away, so you need a head start.”
Of those workers who were ready to drive north, he said, “probably about 25 stayed put” because of the Long Island IBEW local’s demands. “Another 35 were delayed by five days.”
