Paleocon said:
"Here's the perfect opportunity for residents of Allentown and surrounding communities to answer the president's stirring call to service. Grab rakes and shovels and head over to to Kimmets Lock Park every weekend until the place is immaculate. The more the merrier. When there's absolutely nothing left to do there, move to another park and another and another. (The city has more than three square miles of parkland, so there must be plenty of unfinished work.) When parks are exhausted, turn to other public facilities. And if anyone in a purple shirt gives anyone the slightest amount of crap, poke him with litter-pickers till he scurries back under his rock."
I agree, in fact it might a good opportunity for some 912ers to make a showing, wearing their anti SEIU shirts.
The unions have long ago ceased to have a positive role in American life, their role in the early 20th century was necessary. Now the unions are just a haven and source of funding for organized criminals.

I agree with your last post sir, for involved in the UAW-CIO for 11 years. When I started work at the Chrysler Jefferson plant, the total employees numbered 16,000 strong. As the years passed, and Union demands were met, employees ceased to increase. When I was laid off for two years, in 1958, I was forced to move from the area around Detroitk, to Los Angeles, where I was contacted to return to work, two years later. In 1958, when I left, there were only 8,000 members working the same jobs, but good old automation had replaced them all. What happened to the other 8,000 members. Too bad Paul Harvey is not alive to tell us the end of the story! Unions are now full of themselves and have lost much of their need to exist. They themselves require a large revision in their thinking and actions. Is the Union interested in their members? Sure, they pay for all of the rich appointments and acc0omodations at the annual conventions. Fellow members, you are still picking up the tab and responding again, to the perpetual union claim, "The companies are trying to break the unions!" It would be more accurate to say that those men in those union offices want to keep that money flowing in, for their own uses, and do not even mention the words like "mob!" Sorry guys, been there and done that too!

Many city projects, whether funded by city funds, or government grants, are supplemented by that which is called in-kind donations. With Money going into the projec from the funds earned by the in-kind donations. The project was probably given funds in ration to the hours the cub pack(s) donated to the project. The employees of SEIU would benefit from those donations, which would provide additonal funding to pay for their wages. It appears that the SEIU is not informed on funding in city projects. I am sure that the SEIU have children who have participated in other in-kind donations. I have also contributed of my own personal time, to raise in-kind funds. I approve of using children of Cub Scout ages, for it provides understanding of how public projects get done. While providing extra funding for the project. I have volunteers countless hours on projects, including grant writing. My hours were credited to the project, first at ten dollars per hour, and then finally at fifteen dollars per hour. I donated 1,000 hours minimum, at either $10 dollars, or which provided $10,00o toward the project(s) of at the rate of $15 dollars per hour, it provided $15,000 for a project(s). Get this clear, I did not receive one penny of that money. It was voluntary and I do not regret those many donations. More folksshould get out and contibute their time for those extra dollars to help city projects. Contact your local civic groups, or Chamber of Commerce.

Unbalanced is a troll
He is here all day and night on almost every thread to agitate, mock and lie.

Waste of time talking to the moron

Interesting stat - In the Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton Metropolitan Statistical Area, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate 9.5%, up from 5.9% just one year ago.
Of course, this is Bush's fault, right? You spout the party line quite well, but these bozos (SEIU, OBAMA, ET.AL.) are brining about the bankruptcy of the U.S.A. Instead of partnering with companies to produce and be efficient - ultimately a win-win for labor and business - the unions have chosen to get in bed with government hacks and try to demonize and cripple businesses. And what do you think happens if this latter partnership is ultimately successful. Keep your eyes on GM and Chrysler for your ultimate answer - oh and watch Ford to see an example, to some extent, of the former relationship.
I'll close with a Thomas Jefferson quote that seems appropriate:
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

I believe you read too much into my post and read incorrectly. Allow me to clarify.

First, I do know what Molon Labe means and it's origin. Otherwise I would not use the motto. But there is another reason I use the motto and it's not related to the battle of the Spartans at Thermopylae. But I'm not sharing that one.

Second, how you extrapolate from my post that I'm against private citizens owning weapons is a stretch. You should've trusted your intuition and known that if I use the motto "Molon Labe," I'm most likely a staunch advocate of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution, which I am.

Third, I believe the source of your confusion stems from the title of my post, "Unbalanced." "Unbalanced" is a leftist troll who comes to TH to post leftist/liberal drivel. I believe you mistook the title of my post to mean the article was unbalanced. On the contrary, the article was balanced because it's rooted in facts.

I hope this clarifies any confusion you may have as to where I stand on gun ownership, the Second Amendment and my feelings towards the current administration and all who support it.

De Oppresso Liber
Molon Labe

The Union people have no idea what work is. They have stolen from the America workers for way to long. This isn't the 1930's , but they are the typical Obama share the wealth thugs. When We The People take back our Country from our worthless idiots in Washington, I will gladly help put a STOP to these idiots and their Legal Mouths of the ACLU. This is a RIGHT TO WORK COUNTRY and it is time to stop these thugs from any more of their worthless BS.

Taunting Strikers is risky.

If you know the business and know those strikers actually work there it may have future risk.

Otherwise the risk could be immediate.
Unions frequently switch pickets with people who are unknown in the area just so some can pitch a few lemon size rocks at hecklers and then vanish.
Or follow them to their homes and do mischief.

Unions have also been known to send all the pickets to lunch or dinner at the same time so there will be no witness to some mischief they do.

It is foolish to needlessly anger Unions unless you have enough personal interest to make it worth the risk.

It's truly amazing that the union morons don't even acknowledge the fact that they have cost themselves 100's of thousands of jobs with their ridiculous demands over the years!

To this day, whenever I hear about a strike, I love to drive by and taunt the morons on the picket lines or park my car and walk through them.

I was hired by a small, local phone company (along with 5 or 6 other college kids on summer break) to go in to apartment complexes to put modular jacks to the hard-wired phones so people could go out and buy their own phones and hook them up to the network.

We had to join the union for the summer (paid union dues with no union benefits) for the union's permission to help them do the jobs they'd have to do over the next decade to get all the phones converted to permit CUSTOMER CHOICE in phone equipment.

The unions ended up brow-beating the company so much that the company agreed we wouldn't do those jobs any more, under the belief that we'd take jobs away from the union workers.

Instead we joined the installers as they did their union-limited four installs for the day so we could park behind the warehouses in the industrial park and drink beer from noon until we had to return to the garage at 3:30.

The company was sold to the adjacent phone company because their service was so poor and costs so high that the company couldn't keep it viable.

Good job, union workers of the world. YOu're killing the golden geese.

to recite tired, Marxist cliches with panache is not a sign of brilliance. We all know that GWB is much more intelligent than BHO. Just compare their SATs and college grades. LOL

The ACORN stink is not over yet!
This should bring a smile to your face;

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116671

of union members is mind boggling.

Over the years, I have witnessed union members in the building trades, proudly wearing their assorted pins and threat to strike attire, go into Home Depot, Lowes or Menards and purchase a wide variety of products, especially power tools, that are made in China. Why? Because they have the same warranties as domestically produced products, but cost as much as 40% less! I guess that being a true union member actually means I'm getting mine, screw everyone else!

Isn't it fascinating that the assumption of the neo-commies is that capitalism is so bad for the people and unsustainable, that they have to load it with socialist spending, regulation and waste so as to make it collapse, because they know that it won't collapse on it's own? In fact, it provides exactly what it's supposed to do; prosperity for more people in a society than any other economic system. Yet, they need to sabotage it in order to discredit it.

Yet, it cannot be discredited on it's own without the Cloward-Piven sabotage. Ironic, eh?

"Come on, baby don't you want to go
Come on, baby don't you want to go
To the same old place, sweet home Chicago"

The birthplace of SEIU, circa 1921.

"When BSEIU president Jerry Horan died in April 1937, McFetridge was the most senior local union president... but Thomas Burke... had the backing of the Chicago mob...George Scalise, president of a small BSEIU local of window washers in New York City and the international's representative on the East Coast, emerged as a compromise candidate. Scalise's mob ties were strong but not as public, and he had the backing of New York City mobster Anthony Carfano. Hesitant BSEIU executive board members elected Scalise after being intimidated and coerced by members of the Nitti gang... (take the wiki with your preferred grains of salt)

and on it goes.

Sounds to me that Nicky "The Path" Balzano was just doing his job, as any good soldier would. For as far as he went, "Balanced" hit one of his "two-a-days" - as the stopped clock analogy goes.

Why progressives/liberals/those-way-to-the-left-of-center choose to ignore certain realities, (such as, imho, where money is to be made, those most prepared for corruption frequently rise to the top) is anyone's guess. A Tony Soprano gets far fonder treatment from Hollywood than, say, a Gordon Gekko 'cause, you know, show biz plays to the "little people."

ps: James...Texas...you're grist for the mill dude...feed no trolls.

Why is not the Chief Justice finding out about these purple shirted thugs and charging them? What happened after the videos of these abuses of decent citizens? Where is Sharpton or ACLU?
Where are the liberal crybabies? There is no end to it.

Balanzo /was/ President of the local. He resigned. ("Retire for reasons of health" says Big Mario.)

Would someone please keep track of where this guy ends up? I can only guess that he and the others who "resigned" will be appointed to some sweet paying position within the Democrat's well-oiled machine.

Chippy was a scary dude. They didn't mind intimidating the members and I saw first hand that the unions (pretty much like Washington pols) didn't give a hoot about those they were supposedly representing.

It was all about money and power.

Balanced is an Islamo-Fascist who advocates the overthrow of the United States of America so he can have the power of life and death over you and me.

Include: Halitosis the master of diseases, Left Angle the Commie Freedom Fighter, aFriKa the Gay Somali Pirate, SAllanG the Leotard wearing Libtard, and other warthog trolls who sail in here to hijack the message.

is a paid troll, Soros is NOT getting his moneys worth.

You did the right thing in avoiding a one man confrontation with a Teamster Goon Squad.
Unless you have enough manpower to set a trap for them.

Ever wonder why unions exist?

"The mere fact that a Union exists in a Company is proof positive that at some time in the past, someone high in Management has done something stupid!"
Samuel Gompers

When Republicans regain power they should change Labor Laws to give employees seniority rights after an arbitrary trial period.
A "Discharge only for just cause" thing.
Just something to protect your job when some "Boss's relative" needs work.

Just that would do great damage to Unions and most Employers are not really eager to waste money training some nephew with a potential to bring family strife into his workplace anyway.

Worker's Unions?

It is a well known FACT that American workers are easier to train, more versatile and have the lowest per unit labor cost!

Do you hear any of these so called "Unions" complaining about the way Government has handicapped American Industry so badly that foreign Industry can purchase both raw material and fuel from America, transport it to asia, pay workers higher wages & benefits than American workers, ship finished products back to American stores and price items lower than our own domestic products?

Did the UAW properly represent workers by destroying their livelyhood?
These Unions seem to be too stupid to realize that a Company must make a profit for it's shareholders to justify it's existence!

Many senior employees invest their entire lifetime in working for a Company.
When their Union destroys their livelihood it is not the fault of the Company, it is the fault of the greedy people who voted for it to happen.
They have only their own avarice & greed to blame!

Mark Twain once quipped "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

Mark Twain, one of my favorite quotable people, must have been talking about liberals.

I managed to get sideways with them during contract negotiations. My shift elected me as their representative in negotiations with the company. I accepted.

The company was offering the employees (as best as I can recall) 15 cents per hour pay increase (hey it was a long time ago). The union wanted us to hold out for 25 cents. Sounds good so far. However, the union was going to keep 15 of the 25 cents.

Thus the union, which cared deeply about its people, wanted us to strike for 5 cents less per hour than we could get. By the way, the union was taking dues from the employees and also from the company for providing employees.

I went back to my shift buddies and recommended they vote FOR the company's offer. Another shift heard about it and concluded the same time. At this point the local Teamster's boss (Chippy Revelese as I remember) moved the meeting for the vote to another hall 50 miles away and didn't tell us. Whoever showed up (if anyone) at that meeting voted for the union plan and a strike.

When I protested I was threatened (physically and with losing my job) if I didn't shut up. I decided to shut up and get out of town as quickly as I could find work elsewhere.

Nice guys those Teamsters.