- Say nice things about the lights, then say nice things about unions.
When you haven’t had a paycheck for a year and a half, Christmas cheer tends not to be your friend.
So it went last week when the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers sought a hand from its members, hundreds of whom have not had work for more than a year. It seems Local 38 needs help setting up the annual Christmas light display on Public Square. It’s an opportunity to commune with one’s brethren, to keep spirits high through trying times. And what was that other part?
“We also can always use the POSITIVE Public Relations Advertisement that can be reaped from an endeavor such as this,” Local 38’s letter to members read. “There is enough negative press about Organized Labor we deal with constantly, and this will go a long way to change that perception with the public.”
Indeed, underhanded high jinks from local union heads have helped forge the compelling drama that is our county corruption scandal.
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2010.
Thank you lamplighters.
Hey Tom Murtaugh……err, I mean, unidentified union source, maybe you wouldn’t be out of work for two years if you accepted a job that was offered to you. No, just continue to beg for handouts from your union brothers and then bad mouth them. The city is looking for volunteers and Local 38 is stepping up to help out. If you want to try and turn that into some sort of devious act, feel free BROTHER. We’ll continue to try and make this city a better place, while dodging the stones thrown by people like you who just want to stand on the sidelines and whine.
hey asshole, if you”re going to motherfuck one of our brothers by name, why not print your name, Shitbag? John Reminder
What handout was asked for? Oh a brotherhood that doesn’t oppress its members? or the truth behind who is running Local 38? I think they were expecting bad press, should the names of every Action line member be listed.
He is good guy,and was a great lab partner.Great thinker and am looking over him right now. Tim J.
Thanks Tim I knew you would understand!
hey “Union Brother”–this comment could be echoed by 368 other members, plus the 200+ on furloughs–
“I think the Action Line members and the scabs that they organized will get by without my help,” he says.
Maybe get some CW/CE’s to hang some lights, and illegally NOT pay into Local 38’s pension.
The truth will set you free, The business manager and the business agents all know the time is here,that the whole story be told ! The IBEW local 38 and the missing International Represenative, who was lost at sea? ????????????????????????????
I believe these issues can be openly discussed at the monthly union. Join me won’t you? Brian P. O’Donnell
Hhmmnn.. let’s think about Cuyahoga County…
Forty thousand, ( that’s 40,000 ), vacant houses that once were homes, in Cuyahoga County alone- due to twenty five years of manufacturing job losses from unfair trade agreements implemented by congressmen with pensions in overseas accounts, swayed by paid lobbyists from corporate round tables who think that it’s just great to completely off shore entire factories and get a tax break from doing so as long as the average CEO of any major corporation earns an average of 330 times the pay of the average worker…
…where $500 million in equity is skimmed off the steel mills by Hunt and ISG and then sold to a foreign conglomerate… where young brave men are sent to places like Iraq at a cost to occupy at $440 million a day… where Communist China is given a Favorite Nation Trade Status as unemployment and recession grip us here at home!
This country has given away the steak and we are left to fight over the crumbs!
Are you F****n pissed yet?
Yeah, someone’s not going to help put up Christmas lights and someone else is.
We had better ALL get together and put this country back on course or else there will be no hope for The American Dream for neither our kids or our grand kids.
Daniel Mohney