Sure, but what surprised me - maybe I wasn't clear - is that the union is apparently paying random people to stand on the line with them to make the protest look bigger.
(Unless the guy made all this up, of course. But I don't know why he would. He showed another passenger a business card supposedly with who to contact to get in on that sweet $11/hr.)
I don't know why those would be random people. They are likely construction workers that are part of the union who maybe didn't dress for the cold today? Either way, they are paying people to help get jobs for their union, not much different than paying someone to hold a sign in front of a business advertising a sale.
The principle behind unions is solid, but the reality is that many are corrupt and some are even still tied to organized crime. Hiring random people to act as protesters would be unsurprising.
The whole thing is kind of strange. I don't really think it is very deceptive ,or necessarily "wrong" to hire people to picket. I can understand how people might react negatively upon hearing the union was doing this. I think "what's the big deal", I am rarely moved by people holding signs on the side of the road, and the only thing I gathered from seeing them was that the developer was not using union carpenters. I think they should use union carpenters and maybe could be more honest, if it is true, and have only members picket . While there are unions and union members that have broken the law, and been in some way corrupt, I think unions are an overall benefit to workers and their employers. Corporate talking points about unions are always the same, and part of a tiresome myth.
Thanks for posting the photos, this building is going to be huge! I wonder if it will show up above the tree lines to the west or if I could see it from my building on S Washington?
I apologize if this has been posted already, but AUDG Holdings has this video rendering of their SkyVue in Oakland PA that might give insight as to what we could expect with SkyVue Lansing:
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