[quote=spdrun]Only on Piggington does a thread about Carnegie Hall employees turn into a flamewar about cops. *sigh*![/quote]
No, spdrun, the thread was just another tired jab at unions, this time Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees in NY. I notice that XBoxBoy, who started the thread hasn’t contributed to it.
The reality is that Piggs, such as CE, who stated here that he has to “supervise” union workers (because they’re stupid and lazy??) and a few others very likely have “union envy.” They don’t like the deals that unions make for their workers and think it’s unfair to non-union workers yet they state they won’t belong to a union themselves. CE has in the past stated here a few times (on threads bashing unions, of course) that he could have been in law enforcement (almost always unionized) and he had all of the qualifications for the job, but in the end, he chose not to pursue this line of work.
It’s an old and tired subject here, but alas, it’s the law. Most of the state law in this area is modeled directly from Federal law. In laymen’s terms:
When I post on these threads that it’s the law, the same Piggs just keep on with their tired rant about pay, benefits, pensions, etc of union members. When I suggest they take action for legislative reform and suggest ways to begin doing so, they all fall away like dominos.
I guess its easier to put your head in the sand and take it out intermittently to complain than to try to do anything about it.
So there you have it. A handful of executives employed at New York’s Carnegie Hall (gasp … is there actually such a thing as blue collar executives?) are making low to mid-six figures annually in apparently high-priced NYC (acc to SK) and it somehow turns into fodder for the same anti-union rhetoric by the same whiners.
