Coming To A Construction Site Near You

by | Jul 8, 2010 | Labor Relations Ink

Setting: Construction site, daytime – surrounded by picketers and protestors. Action: Enter two construction trucks attempting to get to their work site. Finding the way blocked by an angry mob, they drive over and park in a mall parking lot to await the police. As they are sitting quietly in their trucks, a black SUV suddenly screeches to a halt in front of them. Out of the SUV pounce several baseball bat-wielding thugs, who commence to shatter the glass on the trucks and otherwise cause mayhem. As the workers exit their trucks to protect themselves, they too are assailed with baseball bats, sending one to the hospital. Sounds like the latest action thriller, but unfortunately, it is business as usual for union thugs in Upper Merion, PA. The victims were targeted simply because they wanted no part of a union. Even though over 9000 such incidents have been recorded since 1975, there have been convictions in only about 3% of the cases.

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