Closing Bell: Walgreens Gets the Rat Treatment on Myrtle
Last week a rat popped up on Clinton Avenue. This week it’s Myrtle. The union boys are miffed that Walgreen’s (the store’s doing the work not the developer) is using “untrained and unskilled” workers (their words, not ours) to build out their new digs on the ground-floor of the Clermont Condominium at 375 Myrtle Avenue…
Last week a rat popped up on Clinton Avenue. This week it’s Myrtle. The union boys are miffed that Walgreen’s (the store’s doing the work not the developer) is using “untrained and unskilled” workers (their words, not ours) to build out their new digs on the ground-floor of the Clermont Condominium at 375 Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene. Just curious: What kind of permit does an organization need to get to display an inflatable animal in the middle of the street?
The Clermont Condominium Open For Business [Brownstoner] GMAP
Since we haven’t eliminated unfair wages, dangerous work conditions, and disrespect for the working man/woman, I kinda think we aren’t finished immunizing the workplace. Since under your system of savage capitalism a token booth worker would have to work at minimum wage until she was fifty than be fired to be replaced by an even cheaper and somewhat more nimble twenty year old, yes I think it is perfectly fine for her and her colleagues to get together and force management to pay her enough to raise a family and plan for more than being abandoned in a field at 55. And I am willing to pay a bit more for my subway ride for that.
3:47 – if Ronald Reagan is your hero, could you please move a little closer to the subway platform edge. yeah, that’s it. Just a bit closer…
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RONALD REAGAN TAUGHT US ALL THAT WE CAN BREAK THE UNION WITH NO DISRUPTION OF SERVICE. IT’S A SCARE TACTIC THAT WITHOUT UNIONS THIS COUNTRY WOULD FAIL.
putnamdenizen your argument is fallacious. what you are basically saying is that if we immunized enough people to eliminate a disease from the planet that we should continue to vaccinate them regardless of the fact that the disease no longer exists. and then you go on to make the same point i previously stated which is that unions do not currently: “raising everyone’s standard of living”. They raise the standard of living for a select few. Some poor guy working two jobs should have to pay out extra at the token booth so a clerk can retire at 50?
Also, why would anyone need to know if someone was hiring “un-unionized labor”? Its not a crime.
And a disrespect for the labor that built this country.
And thanks for your prior post Putnamdenizen. I was going to respond, but you did it much more effectively than I would have.
“Union labor are hired hands and have no right to any profits.”
Sentiments like that really indicate a complete disrespect for the value of labor in this country.
Yes, anyone who dies at work and is not in a union has no recourse what so ever.
Yes, union labor can die on a work site–and their union will be there for them. When the Guatemalan dude being paid shit falls to his death he gets bupkus. Corporate whore.
If the mob did not “influence” builders to use Union labor, no one would use them. They add no additional value or quality but they overinflate the costs.
12:40 – union labor can die on a work site, so your over-the-top and inappropriate comments make no sense.
And btw: unless union labor wants to invest their money up front in a project, they are not entitled to the profits. Union labor are hired hands and have no right to any profits.
Union labor adds no additional value.