> That story lacked important details, but more information is coming
> out by the minute.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...tage_n_2059651...
> Looks like the Mafia, which controls unions back East, is behind
> turning away non-union crews in NJ.
>

I have a buddy who works in one of the tall buildings in NYC. Showed
up for his first day of work with a box that had his office stuff in
there, stapler, pens, desk calendar, pictures, coffee mug, that kind
of stuff that you show up with your first day on the job. He was
stopped at the door and was told he could not carry that box into the
building, that he had to fill out a work order and a Union person
would carry the box up to his office for him. He said it was about
eight hours later, near the end of his first day of work, that the
work order finally got processed and the Union worker showed up at his
office with his box, when if he had carried it himself it would have
taken five minutes instead of eight hours.

But I think my favorite Union story came from Philadelphia a few years
back, when they were constructing a new skyscraper and it was to be
state of the art and green friendly. Among the amenities was one of
those organic toilet systems where the waste is not flushed but
recycled somehow. The problem was the Unions in Philadelphia had
contracts that required them to build toilets and drainage for all
buildings, but this company did not require it. The Unions sued this
company in court and won, so this company had to pay all this extra
money for a waste drainage system they would never even use.