November 17, 2009 11:57 AM
Obama's BFF SEIU goes after Boy Scouts
SEIU thugs vs. the Boy Scouts -- and other related Big Labor antics
Hey, you know all that high-minded talk from President Obama about calling young people to serve their country?
Well, if it conflicts with Big Labor's interests, children, there's a new message: Knock it off!
The Purple Shirted-thugs of the Service Employees International Union -- ACORN's alter ego and Obama's most frequent visitor -- are going after an Eagle Scout who poses a threat to their workers because he's volunteering too much.
From the Allentown Morning Call:
In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.
Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union.
Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.
"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.
Balzano said Saturday he isn't targeting Boy Scouts. But given the city's decision in July to lay off 39 SEIU members, Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path.
Care to comment, President Obama? Or do SEIU thug-in-chief Andy Stern and his "persuasion of power" trump your service message to kids?
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Comments
This story is mind boggling. Where is the common sense? Isn't there someone in these unions to say "Hey, wait a minute, that makes no sense?". Even if it's just because it LOOKS bad to go after a volunteer and a Boy Scout. Ridiculous. Just plain ridiculous.
Posted by: April C. | November 17, 2009 1:29 PM
WHAT? I swear. I am having so many "what in the world? I just don't get it" moments lately. My head is spinning from all the say one thing, then say another and then only act if it's going to be a defensive, thuggery move done on the part of Obama's Chicago Crooks' club.
Posted by: Elle | November 17, 2009 2:09 PM
Boy those unions are sure going to gain a lot of public sympathy with their, "We need to save union jobs so badly that we HAVE to go after the boyscout volunteers!" rhetoric. It reminds me of how my husband had to hide the fact he was moving his desk location (when he worked at Visteon- they had unionized building caretakers at the time). If he was seen moving something bigger than a file box (ie: his own computer), he'd be written up for a formal complaint and infraction as moving heavy things was the union's job. Meanwhile, he had to move his computer in the late hours of the day (after 6pm there's not a union worker to be found! Imagine that!) so he wouldn't be spotted. Turns out his friends who hadn't done that and instead filed a request to have their things moved were stranded for a week without their PC's because the union took so long in getting around to it.
Sigh.
Living in a rust-belt union thug loving state like Michigan sure makes me scratch my head sometimes. I just wonder how many jobs could have been saved in our manufacturing sector if the unions weren't so greedy with their job banks and wages. Imagine, you're laid off and you get 90%, NINTEY PERCENT!!!, of your wages just for sitting on your behind. I was laid off and very thankful for the unemployment insurance I paid into while I was working, but it was no where near 90% of my original wages. Turns out during the whole GM bankruptcy investigations that the unions would cycle people in and out of work just long enough to remain qualified for the 90% wage they were getting while at home. Goes to show how some workers are more equal than others...
Back when working conditions weren't safe (pre-OSHA), we needed some form of advocacy group to make sure everyone went home with their limbs attached, but now with all the government safety oversight and regulations, you think we could do away with much of the unions.
This article and the condemnation of the unions that followed it just goes to show that if you give someone enough rope, they'll eventually hang themselves with it:).
I'm bound to provoke some people with this rant, but really, if you've seen and heard about some of the things that go on in this great state and had to watch a lot of your friends (and your husband and yourself) get laid off and hear about how your state has the highest unemployment rate in the NATION during a RECESSION, you'd feel pretty peeved by the freeloaders too.
Posted by: Sarah | November 18, 2009 10:02 AM
Sarah, I agree with you 100%. My husband worked at UPS for a few years. He hated the union when he was an hourly worker because it insured that no lazy, incompetent workers were ever fired. People came in drunk and high, and the union would protect them. Meanwhile, he was working as hard as he possibly could, and there was not direct benefit. Everyone got the same raise every year. There was literally no incentive to try unless you wanted to go into management.
He did go into management, and then he had to deal with the other side of unions. The Teamsters would pitch a fit if management so much as touched a box. Forget the fact that the reason they had to touch the boxes was because lazy, drunk workers wouldn't do their jobs.
Beyond all of that, there were so many workers who didn't want to work because the job was "too hard." UPS has almost a revolving door of employees. That was really the straw that broke the camels back for my husband. So many people were complaining that there was no work to be found, yet UPS who hires pretty much anyone without a criminial record, kept losing workers because they didn't want to work. The cushy union benefits meant nothing to them.
He loved the job, but he hated the Teamsters.
Posted by: Lauren | November 18, 2009 3:00 PM
