More Union Logic

Today, I saw a picket of three men on a small building project.
There are usually never more than 4 or 5 people on the job.
it is a slow project with limited funds.

But these three men were stopping deliveries of building supplies.
So the building supplies were never delivered. The company that
delivered the supplies could not make any money but cost them
money for the deliver. - money lost.

The workers could not get paid because they had nothing to work
with and were sent home. - money lost

But the union continued to stop deliveries to this small project.

WHY? I ask. What harm does this one small non-union project
cause to the unions? It's about power, leverage and payoffs. OK,
when I say payoffs, I mean union dues. Money the union can use
to do whatever it wants - usually to bribe congresspeople to vote
in favor of union wants.

This is a cycle that has to stop. It does not help anyone. The 4 or 5
workers will not get any better wages. They are already paid more
then union wages. They are all part-time workers - like most
construction workers. And they are skilled in more than one function,

Therefore, one week a laborer might be installing iron and the next week
 they might be installing dry wall and the next month electricity. All
certified by city officials as "up to code."

But in a union workplace, the iron workers would get one wage and only
work for a few days. They would be replaced by dry wall labors and
the electricians would do their work as the dry wall persons go home.

That to me does not make sense. I would rather have a few good all around
workers on the job from start to finish when doing a small project like
the one I'm talking about. Then use those same workers on the next project.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford.