Picketing at 360 Smith on 2nd Place
All is not well at 360 Smith Street. A tipster snapped this photo of picketers out in front of the controversial development on Second Place in Carroll Gardens. He says he thought it was the Drywall Union, which is problematic unless the developer can assemble a crack team of master plasterers in a hurry. Update:…
All is not well at 360 Smith Street. A tipster snapped this photo of picketers out in front of the controversial development on Second Place in Carroll Gardens. He says he thought it was the Drywall Union, which is problematic unless the developer can assemble a crack team of master plasterers in a hurry. Update: The blog Carroll Gardens Diary just posted that it’s the Carpenters’ Union that’s doing the picketing. Another Update: It turns out that the protest is about drywall workers but it’s about work taking place at a brownstone on 2nd Place and not the large development on the corner.
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“our ecomony runs relatively smoothly, and there are no violent revolutions of the poor.
Unions have nothing to do with this. They do not generally represent the poor.”
But doesn’t the fact that they are unionized help to protect them from becoming poor?
The strength of one’s reaction is usually inversely proportionate to the strength of their position. Blowfish’s email; case in point.
The basic premise of a union is that it doesn’t work unless everyone joins. Same basic premise as socialism. It just doesn’t work if there are competent non-union people out there who are willing to do the work without making the same demands as unions. And over the years unions have consistently engaged in awful tactics to force people to join. To put it another way, the basic mission of the union is to choke off competition – this is fundamentally anti-competitive and anti-capitalist.
blowfish, how about subjecting unions to antitrust laws? Would you be happy to do that?
“Picketing is capitalism.”
Don’t get the argument here. Seems more like intimidation to me.
“our ecomony runs relatively smoothly, and there are no violent revolutions of the poor.”
Unions have nothing to do with this. They do not generally represent the poor.
The unions are concentrated in a few industries plus the public sector. Not representative of the economy as a whole.
blowfish…I wasn’t advocating the hiring of illegal workers. On the other hand, ther is no LAW that says unions have to be hired.
Why is this your business and not ours to comment on???
since when is non-union synonymous with illegal? the guys doing construction on my building now are all non-union and look pretty damn american to me.
typical union tactics – appeal to everyone’s retarded patriotism and xenophobia to gain support.
Blowish, I would be proud to swim a day in your scales.
lethacal and DIBS, as usual, you nothing about the situation, but you feel ENTITLED to spout off about what’s going on. Hiring illegal workers is illegal. Picketing is capitalism. Owners have a right to leverage their capital in bargaining, and to certain protections under the law. Laborers have right to leverage their capital (labor) in bargaining, and to certain protections under the law. Hence our ecomony runs relatively smoothly, and there are no violent revolutions of the poor. Sit down and shut up and mind your own business.
I’m in, lechacal. I’ve done drywall before. I’d say we bring along out of work baristas but I don’t want any attitude on the job site.
Joe, if you know the issues with the crane that fell in Manhattan, the company that did the welds did them reluctantly and told the owners that they didn’t believe they would hold. They were up front about it.
What is going to be there? The building looks so far to high, isn’t it??