Non-Union Electric Companies Turned Away From NYC

Yesterday, I heard about a case where a Alabama electric company crew was turned away from New Jersey because it was non-union.  That story was turned out that it was a non-story as there was miscommunication.  Well, that wasn't the only story of union goons turning away non-union workers from helping with the Hurricane Sandy disaster.
From the Washington Examiner: A business coordinator at a power company in western Georgia told The Daily Caller Friday afternoon that workers from his electric-utility employer were not permitted to help restore power to New York consumers because they would not join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
The revelation comes on the heels of similar stories TheDC has reported about power crews from Alabama and Florida who volunteered to fix downed power lines after Hurricane Sandy left millions in the Northeastern United States in the dark this week.
“We’re not a large utility, so we were only able to send up two or three crews,” Glenn Cunningham, a business continuity coordinator with Diverse Power in LaGrange, Georgia, said in a phone interview.

“They worked in Maryland, and they went up to New York, and when they got up there it was, ‘out come the union papers.’”
“And our guys were like, ‘Hey, we’re not joining nothing. We came up to help, but if you don’t want it, that’s fine.’ So they turned around and drove all the way back here to Georgia.”....
On Friday TheDC spoke with a veteran electric utility worker from central Florida whose crew was kept idling for two days while his managers dealt with the union’s membership demands.

“It turns out there was a 300-page contract that the union controlling LIPA [the Long Island Power Authority] wanted everybody to sign first,” the utility worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, said. “We don’t have time for that. We’ve got guys ready to go. You need lawyers for this.”
“We’re not complaining about money,” the Floridian added. “You can pay us less. We don’t care. Just let us go up there.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/02/theres-more-georgia-power-crew-turned-away-from-sandy-stricken-new-york-for-refusing-to-join-union/#ixzz2BDlszNER

In other areas, some utilities are being forced to pay their workers the prevailing wage of the area they are working in instead of what they are being paid down south and if they don't pay it, they are turned away.

This is outrageous but when you live in a liberal area of the country, this is what you get.  I am sure, when times are good, the majority of the liberals living in NYC support the unions and their goon tactics but when times are bad, what do you expect the union goons to do?  Change their union goon spots?

But this is another example of the union goon mentality.  

Go ahead, union supporters- justify this.