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In DC and New York (and probably other places), the local unions will pay big groups of homeless people to get together and protest non-union construction sites
by showerst 13y ago
In DC and New York (and probably other places), the local unions will pay big groups of homeless people to get together and protest non-union construction sites with drums and noisemakers. If they get noise-complaint fines, the unions just pay them and tell them to keep going.
After spending a few weeks with people with no stake in the cause wrecking my productivity with drums for a few bucks an hour because an organization didn't like the building next door, I started to appreciate the value of _some_ abridgement of picketing rights.
- dredmorbius 13y agoThat situation sets itself up for a couple of pretty obvious countermeasures: 1. Pay the protesters to go away. It's a free market, after all. 2. Recruit your own volunteers to go to where the union is recruiting, and get paid to protest. 3. Or, if you want to support the union, file a suit against the target of the protests for creating an environmental nuisance.
- mpyne 13y agoSo "protection money", counter-assholery, or lawyers to file a nuisance suit against someone for doing a perfectly legal construction job? What a wonderful world that must be...
- dredmorbius 13y agoI'm looking at ways of hacking the system. And doing so in a way that might balance interests one way or the other. Sometimes life is just a game.