New Jersey Turns Away

[lostinblue 1,989]

How desperate is hurricane-ravaged New Jersey? Not desperate enough to suspend a union monopoly that keeps the state in the bottom ten states for economic competitiveness (and #48 for business friendliness). 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 right-to-work state.

WAFF-TV of Hunstville, AL reports:

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."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/02/New-Jersey-Turns-Away-Nonunion-Relief-Crews

for a news feed from WAFE-TV

http://www.waff.com/story/19981857/some-nonunion-ala-crews-turned-away-from-sandy-recovery

[spookyturtle 9,466]

New Jersey is the bunghole of the US.

[Darnell 8,479]

I had written about this possibility elsewhere.

Now it's confirmed.

Ye Gods I hate New Jersey !

[Neonred 3,648]

Let them sit in the cold and dark at night until the unions come and help them out.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Let them sit in the cold and dark at night until the unions come and help them out.

Amen .. But yet Obama airlifted Repair trucks in from Calif at a cost of millions to the taxpayers for a photo op.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Seriously, SCREW the Northeast. Let these ignorant jerk offs recover on their own. First the idiot Governor of NY wants their entire recovery paid for by the rest of us, now Jersey is turning away people who want to HELP them just because they are non-union? Give me a break. A shame this hurricane didn't wipe the NYC & NJ off the face of the map at this point!

[Neonred 3,648]

Those unions in the northeast are some of the worst. Ruthless and just concerned about their own power and control.

I know what the people in the northeast are going through having gone through a couple bad hurricanes here in FL. They are learning what we now know.

First, PREPARE. No one is coming to help you out for several days, if that.

Second, if you live near the coast, in a low lying area, or in a home that is not built to withstand hurricane force winds, get out.

Have a good inventory of your home and belongings with photo evidence and keep your ins policies in a safe location, and understand no matter how good your insurance is you are going to get screwed.

Your life and safety is most important. The rest is just accumulated stuff, most of which can be replaced.

Life will not be returning to normal for a long time.

Edited November 2, 2012 by Neonred