We've got protesters.
Dec. 18th, 2002 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynPicketers, really. Teamsters, or so I'm told. See, the Red Cross chapter I work for was given a donation by a local Fscking Rich Guy. The rich guy said 'you can have this money so long as you use it to buy a new piece of property and build a new headquarters on it'; I believe he wants his name on a building, and since he's a good guy, we're happy to comply. We bought the land, and Fscking Rich Guy said 'great, now I'm going to build the building for y'all and donate it to you when I'm done - don't forget to put my name on it, 'k?' Problem is, apparently, that Fscking Rich Guy has had some bad experience with unions in the past. He hired the people working on our building. Only some of them are union men, or so I'm told (I dunno if it's some are or none are). So now we've got the Teamsters standing in our driveway waving banners and American flags and handing out papers about how we're using non-union labor and so on and so forth. . .
They're wasting their time, frankly. Most of our major donors already know about the arrangement. Most of the other people who come to the Chapter are either fire victims (who are unlikely to care about much beyond the immediate situation) or volunteers. Some of them are here to get books from our Braille department. I guess the protesters aiming at our CPR and First Aid classes or something. I was raised never to cross a picket line - my grandfather was a union bricklayer and a master mason - but I don't think it applies in this case. They're not picketing a worksite or refusing to work for some reason, they're just protesting.
I think this is a pretty good sign that my decision for my last elective is the right one. I'd decided to register for a course based on the fact that it did not interfere with my karate classes, since I had all my electives in my area of concentration already. The course I'd decided on was a management course rather than a computer related course... Management and Labor Relations.
They're wasting their time, frankly. Most of our major donors already know about the arrangement. Most of the other people who come to the Chapter are either fire victims (who are unlikely to care about much beyond the immediate situation) or volunteers. Some of them are here to get books from our Braille department. I guess the protesters aiming at our CPR and First Aid classes or something. I was raised never to cross a picket line - my grandfather was a union bricklayer and a master mason - but I don't think it applies in this case. They're not picketing a worksite or refusing to work for some reason, they're just protesting.
I think this is a pretty good sign that my decision for my last elective is the right one. I'd decided to register for a course based on the fact that it did not interfere with my karate classes, since I had all my electives in my area of concentration already. The course I'd decided on was a management course rather than a computer related course... Management and Labor Relations.
