Lou wrote on August 30, 2009 07:43 PM: Don't let them fool you! The Unions will not be happy with any job given to any non-union company until we are all Union workers paying Union Dues. The money gives them the power they need to sit at Obama's right hand in the White House. Do not give in to the Unions. We are still and should remain a Right to work state.

GH wrote on August 27, 2009 10:56 PM: I think we should thank the Unions for what they did in the past.

The Unions played a big part in getting labor laws, overtime laws, OSHA, etc, etc, etc that monitor everything that occurs in the workplace.

I say thank you, job well done.

You've succesfully completed your mission of making sure the American worker is taken care of, now it's time to take a bow and exit.

What the unions fought for in the past was honorable, fighting for more money or favoritism in the workplace when it's bankrupting companies, entire industries, and even cities, counties, and the country is not honorable.

workerbee wrote on August 27, 2009 10:24 PM: Wow who is the AFL-CIO representing now? That gotta be hard, the union or the illegal aliens. We don't need the AFL-CIO, unions or illegal aliens. This just proves the point the only one the AFL-CIO care about is lining there pockets. As for fire fighters, go to Afghanistan or Iraq and then tell me how much fire fighter risk their life,and our kids do it for a fraction.

Have Some Cheese Rat wrote on August 27, 2009 05:43 PM: Wow, now I have heard everything! Union dues going to pay for million dollar homes and limos? Really? Hmm, being that I am a union official, where is my million dollar home and limo? I had no idea that my townhouse was a mansion and that my 8 year old pickup was a limo! Guess I am out of the loop on this one.

Bribery to politicians? So you're saying that only unions donate money to political figures and all the money donated by multi-billion dollar corporations was all just a lie? Halliburton anyone?

Union labor takes longer because their projects are bigger, not like your piece of garbage Popeye's Chicken that the rat contractor did, and if the work is so shoddy why am I looking at a trophy cabinet full of awards for outstanding craftsmanship?

Getting promoted to just stand around? Where are you getting your information? I have yet to meet a worker who has managed to keep his job by standing around and not doing a thing.

My union has taken part in plenty of charity events throughout the Las Vegas Valley. You can go by anytime to the Polly Gonzalez park and see the work that our union did on OUR time for FREE! Dollar's Against Diabetes? You Betcha! Breast Cancer Walks? Yep, we were there too!

Not many people know this but if it wasn't for organized labor you wouldn't have your weekends or a 40 hour work week. Women and minorities in the work force? That's right! Organized labor.

Bottom line, get your facts straight before you run your mouth, you obviously don't have a clue as to what you're talking about.

fljohngalt wrote on August 27, 2009 03:06 PM: Unions are parasites that corrupt local governments and loot from tax payers. I wish somebody would start an anti-union group of small business owners and other concerned Americans who want to get rid of unions. I'd sign up in a heart beat.

Say NO to UNION wrote on August 27, 2009 12:52 PM: Keep the UNION out of Nevada!

Out of our lives.

Unions destroy.

MItch wrote on August 27, 2009 12:28 PM: Let's see, the unions and especially Danny Thompson ALWAYS say, "it's about getting people to work." Well, it seems to me, it's about getting THEIR people to work. What they are doing here is keeping people from work with their delays and could stop it completely if the funds go away. With weatherization, you are talking retro-fitting a home. Why on earth would you need to pay prevailing wage for that? You are not building City hall or a police station. The unions are pricing themselves out of the market and if they don't take a step back and look at it in this economy, I think they will wake up one day and wonder why they are non-existent. Tax payers aren't willing to put up with it as they were when times were good and fruitful.

Who cares ? wrote on August 27, 2009 12:22 PM:
The only ones who matter are the Fire Fighters .We risk our lives all the time.

Steve F wrote on August 27, 2009 10:55 AM: "...when a non-union contractor refuses to follow the laws of paying their workers the prevailing wage..."

An asinine, needless "law" forced by unions and pushed through with bribes paid to a union stooge Steven Horsford.

"Seems to me that none of you are educated on how unions work"

Seems you are the uneducated one. We know exactly how unions "work". Union thugs force, by threat of violence, people to join and pay dues. These dues are then used to buy million dollar houses and limos for union "management" and for paying bribes to politicians.

"..trained better in how to do their job so that someone else doesn't have to go in and do the job over again."

Then why does every union job require 50 times as long, the "work" is shoddy, and, like in the streets, the same street is torn up 40 times per year to "fix" problems?

"You sit there and bash unions for being mob ran; those days are over with."

At least there was honor and they worked when it was mob ran. Now, they're just a bunch of jack-booted murdering lazy thugs.

"When our workers are standing around doing nothing they're let go."

Wrong. They are either promoted to a supervisor position in the union or everyone is told to go on a paid 3 hour paid lunch while they get more morons sent in to stand around with them. 20 standing around watching 1 do shoddy "work". All 21 being paid individually more than all 21 are worth collectively.

"How come unions never get mentioned for all the charity and community service they do?"

Now THAT's funny...ROFLMAO.

2zero wrote on August 27, 2009 10:22 AM: Maybe when they were writing the Bill/Law our elected types should have required the work/income go to AMERICAN Citizens.

Hey Danny why don't you and your Union require all members prove they are Americans?

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