New Jersey turns away non-union utility workers

[Skulnik]

New Jersey turns away non-union utility workers from Alabama to aid in restoring power from hurricane Sandy. What are your thoughts?

by The GovenorPostedNovember 02, 2012 (16 minutes ago)



New York and New Jersey have been hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy. Some people might not get electricity for another week or more. There aren?t enough utility workers to make the repairs. Utility workers from other states are donating their services to help.

Alabama Power Co. and electric cooperatives in Alabama have sent more than 1,000 workers to help in states damaged by Sandy.

Alabama Power reports that it already has 441 personnel in Atlantic City, and it has 80 others headed to New Jersey, West Virginia and Maryland. In addition, it has released 372 contract workers to help other utilities in the Mid-Atlantic states.

The Alabama Rural Electric Association says 16 cooperatives have sent 141 crew members to help restore power in Virginia and Maryland.

Now there are several stories that say the utility workers from Alabama were turned away from New Jersey because they did not belong to a union.

This is not an isolated story. Reports are coming in from other places where utility workers from non-union right-to-work states are being told to ?stand down? because they don?t have union credentials.

?The crews that are in Roanoke, Virginia say they are just watching and waiting even though they originally received a call asking for help from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.?

Some crews have ?already headed back home.?

Electric repair work for public utilities in New Jersey is dominated by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, a unit of the politically powerful AFL-CIO.

I wonder if the people in New Jersey are aware of this story. I bet they don?t care anything about a utility worker being unionized. All they want is their electricity back on.

By the way, the AFL-CIO, and unions in general, will be supporting Obama and the Democrats on Nov. 6. Vote accordingly.

 

[hedgehog]

PITY REALLY

 

[fatdaddycool]

New Jersey turns away non-union utility workers from Alabama to aid in restoring power from hurricane Sandy. What are your thoughts?

by The GovenorPostedNovember 02, 2012 (16 minutes ago)



New York and New Jersey have been hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy. Some people might not get electricity for another week or more. There aren?t enough utility workers to make the repairs. Utility workers from other states are donating their services to help.

Alabama Power Co. and electric cooperatives in Alabama have sent more than 1,000 workers to help in states damaged by Sandy.

Alabama Power reports that it already has 441 personnel in Atlantic City, and it has 80 others headed to New Jersey, West Virginia and Maryland. In addition, it has released 372 contract workers to help other utilities in the Mid-Atlantic states.

The Alabama Rural Electric Association says 16 cooperatives have sent 141 crew members to help restore power in Virginia and Maryland.

Now there are several stories that say the utility workers from Alabama were turned away from New Jersey because they did not belong to a union.

This is not an isolated story. Reports are coming in from other places where utility workers from non-union right-to-work states are being told to ?stand down? because they don?t have union credentials.

?The crews that are in Roanoke, Virginia say they are just watching and waiting even though they originally received a call asking for help from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.?

Some crews have ?already headed back home.?

Electric repair work for public utilities in New Jersey is dominated by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, a unit of the politically powerful AFL-CIO.

I wonder if the people in New Jersey are aware of this story. I bet they don?t care anything about a utility worker being unionized. All they want is their electricity back on.

By the way, the AFL-CIO, and unions in general, will be supporting Obama and the Democrats on Nov. 6. Vote accordingly.

First of all, "Politically Powerful"? So Willard Mitt Romney is a union buster, like at Delphi Auto, and was allowed to abrogate their union pensions to the pbga and send their jobs overseas without so much as a blink from the Republican president at the time and they are politically powerful? Like on par with the likes of the NRA, or Haliburton, large corporations like Exxon, Bain, etc.. Each of which donated more money to a single campaign recipient than all of the money the AFL-CIO spent on all political interests. Also, all money spent by the unions has to be volunteered by it's members through monthly collections that are completely voluntary.
The fact of the matter is this, the union and the power company have a contract to perform all work. Most of the workers that are working in the bad areas are obviously residents of the area as well and may very well be some of those that have no power. They need the money that the extra overtime provides more than the volunteers, if just to rebuild their lives. If you allow a corporation to break or bend the contract at any time for any reason, you have breached the contract. I know you don't understand that union personnel are people too, but I happen to know they are.
I assure you that no matter how many volunteers that show up and regardless of how many they allow to help, the work won't be done any faster. The company's first reaction will be to send the regular union men home after their eight hours and use the volunteers to avoid paying overtime. Not only that, their are only so many lift trucks, so many winches, and only so many parts available. There really is a lot more to the story other than what you saw on FOX.



Hope that helps,
FDC

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

There really is a lot more to the story other than what you saw on FOX

Shocker.

 

[The Sponge]

Fdc u might not believe this but about 4 hours ago i was thinking of what angle Fox News would take with this storm to try to divide people and i came up with the union angle and somehow they would pull something like this. I wrote the post about 4 hours ago at another joint. :mj07: This shit station should be bomb with every lying prick stuck inside. They loved showing the looters with the Katrina fiasco. I think they still show those clips till this day. I wouldn't be surprised if they use some of those old clips and try to act like they are from Atlantic City like when they had those fake riots in Wisconsin and we found out that Wisconsin didn't have palm trees but Iraq did :mj07: