Michigan Carpenters Union Outsources Protesters

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy discovers that the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters uses non-union labor to protest a Grand Rapids area businessman. What's worse, the union has even recruited demonstrators who frequent local homeless shelters, including a shelter which gets help from the very same businessman targeted by the union.
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[@ClintL63]

As a Carpenter on a picket line, we would get paid only 20 bucks per day; its all cash money for the homeless @ 10 bucks an hour; better than I used to get; and if you think Unions are destroying america...Unions are the only thing that has kept Michigans economy rollin in the past; Unions are neutered now and the state has fell to SHIT

[@theonlywesttexasmare]

The union needs to go after themselves, since they used non-union labor to protest. Dispictable behavior from dispictable people.

[@slowlearn]

And your point is? What's wrong with hiring someone to help you voice your message? I guarantee the company spokespeople don't all work day-to-day for the companies. They are hire guns- lobbyists, lawyers and PR flacks. Not a union member myself, but look what has happened to the wage disparity since the unions lost power. The rich are richer and you know the rest.

[@SANDST0NE]

If the carpenters can afford to PAY people to protest for higher pay, they obviously don't need it.

[@1VoiceOfReazon]

against that of the companies they work for, then I think the free market system will right the major wrongs. For example, if a true and totally fair voucher system is set up for schools, so that parents choose the school(s) that their children (and their allocated funds) go to, the public school monopoly will be broken and the quality of our schools (and attendant robustness of our economy) will very rapidly improve (provided government bureaucrats stay out of it). If unions are limited to

[@1VoiceOfReazon]

@gec343: I agree that the biggest unions of today (e.g., the NEA and the UAW) are despicable. But the companies of many decades ago that spawned the unions, through their despicable treatment of their workers, weren’t so great either. He who refuses to learn from history is doomed to repeat it (e.g., our headlong slide toward socialism/communism/dictatorship, if we don’t STOP it soon). Don’t blast the IDEA of unions, lest we soon find ourselves living in the company shacks and buying from

[@Searching4Truth1]

Defamation - also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander (for transitory statements) & libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words - is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, govt, or nation a negative image. It is usually a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed (the claimant)

[@Searching4Truth1]

Companies that are having this problem should file charges against this type action for defamation and libel which it looks like the companies could prove false in a court of law
And then sue these unions; especially the bosses !

[@MrOne4truth]

One day all the unions will find out for themselves what they are doing,they will be the ones unemployed,losing their homes,wondering how they will feed their family,sorry bunch of spoiled children

[@jakerlyon]

Degage should help the hired protesters start a Michigan Protestors Union to demand better wages and benefits!

[@gibrebeg]

I remember when Dems paid Union members to protest Scott Browns bid for his congressional seat, and when interviewed, they said they were taking the $50, and still voting for Brown.

[@1VoiceOfReazon]

one company (including its subsidiaries), so that their fortunes will rise and fall along with those of the company they work for, those unions will either make reasonable demands or the companies competing with their company will put their company out of business. Our cars will cost $10K, not $50K, and people at GM will earn salaries closer to what their jobs are actually worth. But large unions have large memberships, so getting there, politically speaking, won’t be easy.