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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US?

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To: Carolyn who wrote (161)11/22/2012 12:02:44 PM
From: joseffy1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 16547
 
This is why unions are hated more and more these days.

I was trying to pick up my wife from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) today, but I had to get around this union rally:

breitbart.com

Basically the SEIU blocked the main road that led to LAX. This happened on and off for about two hours.

Now if that isn't f'd up enough, to snarl up traffic during one of the BUSIEST travel seasons of the year, it gets even better.

You see, the SEIU claim they were representing workers for a company called Aviation Safeguards. But none of those workers attended the protest. This is because those workers voted to break with the SEIU after they felt the SEIU was ignoring them. They then made their own deal with their employers.

The SEIU claims, of course, that the company violated labor laws and "coerced" the employees to decertify and break with the union. The SEIU also claims that some of the employees at Aviation Safeguards are being denied benefits, etc., but several employees for the company directly contradicted those claims.

But no, that didn't stop the SEIU from getting a protest permit from the city of L.A. (who was the bonehead that issued that permit anyway?) and snarl traffic for hundreds of thousands of commuters in the L.A. area. Of course, they claim that people sitting in traffic will think, "Oh yeah, I support that protest," and even congresswoman Janice Hahn echoed that claim. But most of the commuters interviewed by local news were pretty pissed off.

Like me. My wife had to wait an extra 30-60 minutes at the airport because of these jerks. And all for a SHAM of a protest thanks to the SEIU who bussed in hundreds of purple shirted thugs just to pull off their publicity stunt.

Tenchusatsu

P.S. - Feel free to link to this post. This is a perfect example of EVERYTHING that is wrong with unions in America these days.

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