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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1048880" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>[h=1]No Red Tape'? New Jersey Turns Away Nonunion Relief Crews[/h]</p><p>[h=2]Relief crews from Alabama who were specifically called to New Jersey found themselves diverted to Long Island, NY after they arrived because they use non-union labor. Alabama is a <a href="http://www.nrtw.org/c/alrtwlaw.htm" target="_blank">right-to-work</a> state.[/h] WAFF-TV of Hunstville, AL reports:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"> Crews from Huntsville, as well as Decatur Utilities and Joe Wheeler out of Trinity headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they can't do any work there since they're not union employees....</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Understandably, Moore said they're frustrated being told "thanks, but no thanks."</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>With so much at stake--and lives still in danger--it would seem logical to tell special interests to step aside. </p><p> On Wednesday, while visiting cleanup efforts in New Jersey in the company of Gov. Chris Christie, President Barack Obama <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/31/us/tropical-weather-sandy/index.html" target="_blank">vowed</a>: "We are not going to tolerate red tape, we are not going to tolerate bureaucracy."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1048880, member: 12952"] [h=1]No Red Tape'? New Jersey Turns Away Nonunion Relief Crews[/h] [h=2]Relief crews from Alabama who were specifically called to New Jersey found themselves diverted to Long Island, NY after they arrived because they use non-union labor. Alabama is a [URL="http://www.nrtw.org/c/alrtwlaw.htm"]right-to-work[/URL] state.[/h] WAFF-TV of Hunstville, AL reports: [INDENT] Crews from Huntsville, as well as Decatur Utilities and Joe Wheeler out of Trinity headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they can't do any work there since they're not union employees.... Understandably, Moore said they're frustrated being told "thanks, but no thanks." [/INDENT] With so much at stake--and lives still in danger--it would seem logical to tell special interests to step aside. On Wednesday, while visiting cleanup efforts in New Jersey in the company of Gov. Chris Christie, President Barack Obama [URL="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/31/us/tropical-weather-sandy/index.html"]vowed[/URL]: "We are not going to tolerate red tape, we are not going to tolerate bureaucracy." [/QUOTE]
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