Has everything been reduced to self-parody?
The Carpenters Union is paying people — non-union people — to walk its picket lines. WSJ:
Billy Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier, is looking for work. Fortunately for him, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line…the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage — $8.25 an hour — to walk picket lines…
“Low Pay! Go away!” and “That Rat Gotta Go!” the union stand-ins chanted as other workers banged cow-bells and beat on a trio of empty plastic buckets. Eric Williams, a 70-year-old retiree who said he needs extra cash to buy groceries, wore a sign saying that Can-Am Contractors, a nonunion Maryland drywall and ceiling concern, “does not pay area standard wages & benefits.”…
“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.
Speaking of parody, this is how the United States now addresses adversaries that pose existential threats to its allies. What a country!
July 20th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
This tactic is not surprising, after all, there is nothing new under the sun, right? In fact, the same thing is happening in the Congress and the White House, actors are being paid to “represent the people” when in reality they are really only concerned with preserving their own special interests and personal gain.