A New Jersey town tells a volunteer utility crew from Alabama to go home — because they are non-union.
A New Jersey town tells a volunteer utility crew from Alabama to go home — because they are non-union.
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A New Jersey town tells a volunteer utility crew from Alabama to go home — because they are non-union.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Those union guys should be ashamed.
Just a few things this article from the Daily Caller has gotten wrong:
1. The crew was not turned away in New Jersey.
2. Neither the town, nor the IBEW, turned them away, nor did they provide disqualifying paperwork.
If you go back to the article posted, there now is an update, although there should be another one coming as well because now it seems that the paperwork was provided from a consortium of utilities in Alabama (many who are non-unionized at that) and not from the IBEW.
http://whnt.com/2012/11/02/decatur-utilities-crews-return-from-virginia/
You know, if the effort is to castigate one “side” or the other, save it. I am sure there will, at the end of the day, be instances of union misbehavior as well as corporate/business misbehavior. As one who is living through this catastrophe right now, I can tell you of a local Shell station selling gas for twice what everyone else is. I can also tell you that all players (federal, state, local, union, corporations, Republicans, Democrats) are doing everything they can to resolve it. But don’t take my word for it, take it from Chris Christie.
Maybe the Daily Caller will make a better effort in the future to get things right. Who needs this partisan garbage right now anyway. But then again, they most likely wont. At least they put up corrections.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/03/shock-audio-ny-union-members-shout-scabs-and-scumbags-at-visiting-utility-crews