Indiana just passed a so-called right-to-work bill, which has the unions there steaming, especially AFL-CIO President, Nancy Guyott . And although they've cancelled plans to disrupt the Super Bowl tomorrow, Greg Lambert, of Occupy Indiana, said in a statement, they'll rally at the Statehouse on Sunday to call attention to "a war against working people" being waged by "the corporations and banks who buy and sell America's politicians."
Ms Guyott went on to say that union labor built Lucas Oil Stadium and Hoosier union members have made the Super Bowl possible by staffing the restaurants, cleaning the hotel rooms, building the stages, keeping the electricity on and protecting the hundreds of thousands of football fans attending Super Bowl events. "Unlike Gov. Daniels and the Republican leadership in the General Assembly, we aren't interested in doing anything to impede those workers' ability to put food on their family's table."
And it was those statements that got to me because they imply that without unions the work wouldn't have been done and the project never completed, which is totally ridiculous and patently untrue. In fact, I believe that not only would have the work been finished, it likely would have cost far less and been completed sooner, because the only things unions do is add expense and block completion due to crippling work constraints placed on builders.
But, it really doesn't matter what I believe, because I don't live in Indiana. But the folks who do reside there apparently agree. And as far as Ms Guyott and her unions go, she can moan and grouse about elections all she wants, however the citizenry of the state's got her number now and chances are -her unions are never going to recover because their total worthelessness' been found out.
That's it for today folks.
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