Union Thugs Beat Honest American Workers, Vandalize Equipment

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20100625_Union_violence_at_King_of_Prussia_mall.html

Officers responded at 7:10 a.m. Wednesday to the King of Prussia Plaza area of Mall Boulevard for reports that union protestors were blocking the entranceway to the new Toys R Us building site. While en route, an assault was reported in the mall parking lot.

Upon arrival, police found two construction trucks with their rear windows completely shattered, and one victim bleeding from the head. The victims said they were blocked by numerous union protesters from entering the construction site, and so they drove to the mall area to await police assistance.

A short time later, a black sedan pulled up and several men exited with baseball bats, ran up to the two trucks and repeatedly slammed the bats into the windows. As the workers exited the trucks, at least two were then physically assaulted with the baseball bats, and one victim had to be hospitalized. Another victim was able to use his cell phone to photograph the assailants and their vehicle.

Police said the construction site is being protested by Local 401 of the Iron Workers Union.

If duly convicted those union officials should be RICO'ed and the union itself sued into insolvency.

Where are you at peace-loving lefties?

[Hawkgirl]

I suppose those truck drivers were considered "scabs" and the union retards had to beat them to make a point to not cross union "lines".  It happened a lot decades ago....and I see some unions still practice it.

I hope the bat wielders are found and prosecuted.

[thundley4]

Several years ago there were attacks on vehicles crossing picket lines here. That stopped when the companies started hiring off duty cops from out of town as armed guards at their gates.

[Ptarmigan]

Sounds like terrorism to me. I remember that union engaged in this very activity in the late 19th to early 20th century.

[NHSparky]

See, this is where we needed our recently-departed chew toy (he of the all of one post rant) to "explain" to us "stoopid" snarkly people why it was actually the union guys "defending" themselves from the evil windows of those scab cars and the curled-up bodies of those scabs who were attacking them with cell phone cameras.

[Eupher]

A Union is a business - pure and simple. It exists not to protect workers - it's to sustain itself and its infrastructure/bureaucracy.

It's as simple as that.

Unfortunately, the image of Jimmy Hoffa and other labor "leaders" in going up against big, bad business in an effort to wrest control is still strong. Labor "leaders" are still seen as modern day Robin Hoods who rob from the Sheriff of Nottingham to give to the worker.

God. It's enough to gag a maggot.

I guess people forget that Jimmy Hoffa et. al. weren't truly in it for the workers. They did quite handsomely for themselves in the process.

Maybe that's why Jimmy disappeared. He pissed off his mob bosses enough that they had to deal with the problem.

RIP, Jimmy. You were a thug, but you were a well-loved thug.

[zeitgeist]

See, this is where we needed our recently-departed chew toy (he of the all of one post rant) to "explain" to us "stoopid" snarkly people why it was actually the union guys "defending" themselves from the evil windows of those scab cars and the curled-up bodies of those scabs who were attacking them with cell phone cameras.

Nice day shaping up out there ah Sparky?  I will keep this short as I have some yard work to get done and really only one comment.    Blame FDR. 

I see unions as little more than the muscle / enforcer end of that corrupt outfit know as the democrat party.   Were it not for the special privileges they enjoy (largely thanks to FDR) they would have completely dissapeared years ago.  Letting public unions gain the foothold they have is proving un-sustainable for most cities and towns across America. 

Anyone wanting to burn a mole?  Post a poll asking how many dump members are actually union members.  A common theme over there is "I support the union because I was raised in a union house."  or "My uncle-brother cousin's half-wit sister was a member of the garment workers union."  A properly construced poll would prove the sparcity of dummy union members.

[Zeus]

Right-to-work States Outperform,1997-2007

................................................. Productivity Growth........................... Job Growth...........................  Economic Growth
Right-to-work....................................... 18.6%........................................ 17.6%.................................. 41.6%
Union shop.......................................... 17.3%.......................................... 8.9%.................................. 33.5%

Private Sector, Real chained 200 dollars.
percentageSources: GDP by state from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and state employment from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

economic growth in the ten states with the greatest percentage of the private sector workforce in unions to the ten states with the lowest  The ten most heavily unionized states saw 29.2% job growth and a 45.3% increase in GDP. The ten states with the lowest union concentration had substantially better economic performance: a 36% increase in private sector jobs and a 69.9% increase in GDP.

Right to work states have had more than double the population growth of union shop states since 1990. The right to work states saw, on average, a 65.5% increase in GDP over the 16 year period while states with union shops laws only experienced an average of a 45% increase. The wages of workers in right to work states rose an average of 23% in right to work states while in union shop states average wages only rose 15%.


Fact's on Right To work States vs Forced Union States

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Zeus, you should carry that over to the Ammunition forum.