Their newsletter is chock full of articles, advertisements and such on there.
A few I found interesting.
Here's an ad:
In this one, they want you to call your congressperson and tell them to support the employee free choice act. They want you to have the right to form a union if you want to.
What if you don't want to form a union?
Do workers have that free choice?
What if you don't want to have an apprenticeship program? (You train your people like the union does......with 'on the job training'.)
Do workers have that free choice?
What if you are an independent "merit shop" contractor, and want to get an apprenticeship program for your business, but NYS doesn't offer one for your line of work?
Would they have the "free choice" of bidding on public works projects?
Or will they be excluded from bidding, and end up not being able to feed their family because they can't get any work anymore?
Amending Town Law to mandate apprenticeship programs is not giving the Town of Irondequoit "Free Choice" on whose bids they accept, and it's not giving any other contractors in Irondequoit "Free Choice" of bidding on public works projects because they are being "forced" into adding the extra cost of sponsoring apprenticeship programs for their business in order to be able to continue to bid, or, even worse.....not giving them the "Free Choice" of even having an apprenticeship program...because NYS doesn't offer one for their line of work.
Free Choice - only to form a union.
Well, it almost did. When the whole board unanimously decided to send our tax money - not only out of town, but out of the whole state - to move the Senior Center to King$ Pork.
But, that was ok......right?
This is a great opinion piece about the Employee Free Choice Act.
I sympathize with the author when he tells the tales of the union guy who can't find work and can't feed his family.
Makes me stop and think about what this apprenticeship law would do to some families.
They would be out of work and couldn't feed their families either.
But, that's ok......right? Because they "couldn't be bothered" with training their employees......right?
As long as yoos guyz can get work.....the heck with everyone else!
That's what mandating an apprentice law will do.
It will force some people out of business, it will raise the costs of public works projects and in turn raise my taxes, and it will enable unions to be the majority of bidders for public works projects.
Here are a couple of other articles I found interesting:
I have also received a couple of comments and links from a resident that are very interesting:
"It is deplorable that the left wing of the democrat party is holding NYS hostage by refusing to renew laws that allow Industrial Development Agencies to fund not-for-profit projects.
Joe Morelle has a bill ( A5700 ) that would re-instate the Laws allowing for IDA financing of not-for-profit projects, as has been done in the past. The law expired over a year ago and powerful individuals in Albany do not want the Morelle law reinstated. They do not want a prosperous NYS. They are preventing over $2.3 billion is construction work from moving forward.
Mr Wirt, Mr Conde, and Mr Warner would serve their workers far better by moving the Morelle bill forward rather than attempting to enact discriminatory laws in Irondequoit.
$2.3 billion in projects ready to go, putting thousands and thousands of workers back to work. Yet powerful individuals in Albany refuse to support the Morelle Bill. The work is there, the money is there, the workers are there. Albany will not allow it."
Link to article about BILL: S.1241 (Thompson) / A.3659 (Hoyt)
Link to article about BILL: A.5700-A (Morelle)/S.2898-A (Stachowski)
Another e-mail comment and link:
"Did a quick search for more articles
This is typical of the projects that Perticone does not want
As they hold up 2.3 billion in work.
Long Island has about $500,000,000 in projects ready to go.
SORRY---can't have that unless you add 25% to the costs."
Article from Long Island Business News.
Another e-mail:
"This is absolutely priceless
"This is absolutely priceless
It is probably accurate and needs to be published full page in the I POST.
Can you imagine the Public reading that this is what our Town Board wants to invest tax dollars into?
Actually the concept of forced apprentice labor is another way of saying the town board wants to spend tax dollars on people who don't know what they are doing.
The law mandates hiring untrained people to do public work."
Included in the e-mail was a link to the June 2009 issue of The Labor News, with the direction to view page three and "The Top 25 Apprentice Excuses" list.
Included in the e-mail was a link to the June 2009 issue of The Labor News, with the direction to view page three and "The Top 25 Apprentice Excuses" list.
