Signs warning the members of Local 79 that a strike is coming Monday morning.
I don't know why they are taped to telephone poles and parking meters along Grand Avenue.
We have telephones, faxes and e-mail these days, which certainly are better ways to communicate with members.
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Its not about communicating with members. Its about grandstanding for the public.
Unions 101
Personally I think it's great news that demo contractors are on strike.
So what city agency will pursue fining the union for this ?
At the minimum it should be $50 per poster. Isn't there a law about this ?
But, it's almost a given, city government does not mess with unions. The unions effectively run the city.
Ugly, tacky and not to mention illegal, these signs don't make me think too highly of this union.
I guess it's not enough to have developers hire this union to demolish buildings in a neighborhood so that their crap can be inserted.
This union now puts its own crap on utility poles.
Hey union, what's your address? At the moment I have diarrhea and I wanna come and take a crap on your door step! Oh wait, I'm a law-abiding citizen and I respect other people's property.
Litter, that's all that is. Send the union their violations.
Duh, it will never happen.
The Democratic Machine still relies on unions but again, considering the machine is an artifact of the buggy whip era that is no surprise.
Unions can pretty much do as they wish.
They're not communicating with ordinary "Workers" they're communicating with the majority of their membership, illegal (Undocumented) workers who tend to congregate on street corners waiting to be chosen for jobs.
They don't congregate on Grand Avenue and never did.
If John Liu can get fined for his campaign posters, then any else should not be exempt. Let's not have a double standard. The union has a right to express their opinion but should not break the law. There are so many other legitimate ways to get their message across (social media, local newspaper ads/editorials, TV interview such as NY1, etc.)
I support the intention of the strike, but not the illegal defacing of our neighborhood. I hope they have plans to remove them in the near future. By the way, is there any direct benefit to the neighborhood and it's residents via this strike???
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