Union activists have littered a construction project in Philadelphia with bottles of urine because a new company had the audacity to hire non-union construction workers on a new development project.
“We’re going to continue to embarrass the Pestronks [project owners] until they start doing the right thing for our community and our society, and that is pay fair wages and standards that have been established,” said Pat Gillespie, a boss in the Philadelphia Building and Trades Council.
Of course, doing the “right thing” means filling the union’s coffers. And, apparently, “the right thing for our community and our society” doesn’t mean revitalizing a neighborhood as the construction project will do.
A statement from the Pestronks’ website:
“Our dispute is solely with the organized extortion being carried out by the Building Trade Unions management. They are trying to force a majority of non-local workers onto our projects, and force us to pay a huge tax to sustain the Unions’ power structure. The unmatched public defamation of our company, harassment, bullying, vandalism, racism, property damage, and physical assault all add up to EXTORTION by the Philadelphia Building Trades Unions.”
It’s simply intolerable that Veach and Williamson could still ultimately get away with leading a brutal assault because of a misbegotten Supreme Court ruling nearly half-a-century old. That’s why National Right to Work Committee members are pushing for passage of H.R.4256, a common-sense legislative remedy known as the Freedom from Union Violence Act.
Corruption is a pervasive problem in the UAW, and Organized Labor as a whole. Government policies promoting forced union dues are a principal source of corruption. That’s why the National Right to Work Committee is urging Schneider to make the elimination of the forced-dues privileges a core part of his program to clean up the union.
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