By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--July 21, 2010
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the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council says work is being done with nonunion labor. “For a lot of our members, it’s really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else,” explains Vincente Garcia, a union representative who is supervising the picketing.So, while these carpenters make $24 an hour and up — not including benefits — the union is paying their non-union stand-in protesters a whopping $8.25 an hour… oh, and no benefits. In the real world this is called hypocrisy. Naturally the union thugs are explaining it all away as perfectly sensible. You see, the non-union, stand-in protesters don’t have to be in the union to help the union protest “union issues.” After all, would you want actual union members to leave the comfort of their homes, get in their nice automobiles, and drive ALL the way to the protest site so that they can advocate for themselves? You’re kidding right? THAT sounds too much like WORK! What’s a matta you, anyway? (H/T HolyCoast.com)
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
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