Now here's a story that was so interesting I actually stopped thinking about football for a few minutes. A union for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters has outsourced its workers and inserted homeless people to picket for them.
Just to clarify what I'm saying here, and to help ensure that you're not seeing things, the guys on strike are not the guys that do the job. They are people from soup kitchens and local shelters. From a business standpoint its brilliant. The union doesn't have to pay its workers the normal wages to walk the picket line and chant whatever catchy slogan they've got going. Instead they can pay a homeless guy a third or a quarter of that same wage to do it for them. Genius.
It's also hypocrytical.
I say this because the biggest complaint that the homeless folks have in performing this task is that "they aren't being paid enough to do it". And there it is folks. Human nature at its finest. So I ask you dear reader...
...who pickets for the homeless guy?
More sheer absurdity after the jump
Homeless Folks Need Unions Too
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