Unions Outsource Picketing
Sun June 6th, 2004 15:05 MSTRobert at El Gringo points out that a local union is outsourcing it’s picketing:
Sure, it’s hot, there are no breaks and no opportunity to get lunch. But as immigrant workers, they’re used to toiling long hours for low pay.
“We’ve had much harder jobs,” Hernandez, 38, said while leaning on a tall chair along East Van Buren Street.
The two are among dozens of women hired by the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters to carry out the union’s demonstrations. It’s sort of an “outsourcing” of the protest.
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The old-fashioned method, where workers would protest their own conditions, is apparently passe. The construction workers who were supposedly being treated unfairly were still on the job during the demonstration, receiving their supposedly substandard wage and measly benefits.
Chavez and Hernandez, both of whom came from Chihuahua, Mexico, six years ago, say most of the construction workers are immigrants as well. So, they feel like they are trying to stop people in the same situation from being taken advantage of.
Unfortunately, the permalink doesn’t work for this article. It is the May 31, 2004 top entry in the El Gringo blog, and the original source is The Arizona Repulsive
Bonfire of the Vanities #50
I wasn’t sure what to expect doing the Bonfire, supposedly a collection of the internet’s worst posts, but to paraphrase Morrissey, some posts are better than others. Here they are, in order of receipt: Yaron at Daily Lunch loves Jane…
This is a really interesting inversion of the term “scab”. No, it’s not that, either. What is it? Let’s see. The workers are working, but they’re picketing, too. Oh, forget it.
interesting article