NYC Painters Union protests outside Church and brings the Big Rat outside.

[Soul Crusher]

Union Protest Targets Church
Updated: Thursday, 13 Aug 2009, 7:32 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 13 Aug 2009, 7:03 PM EDT
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/manhattan/090813_Union_Protest_Targets_Church
By Luke Funk


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MYFOXNY.COM - A union picketing a Catholic church on Manhattan's Upper East Side has set up one of those infamous inflatable rats.

It is in front of St. Monica's Catholic Church.

International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, District Council 9 is using the 12-foot-tall rat to protest the use on non-union painters inside the church.

Union spokesman Jack Kittle says, "We understand how people are passionate about their religion but our religion is representing workers and we're very passionate about that."

The union insists the rat is not a protest against the church, but the company hired to do the work. The church says it had limited funds to pay for the work, holding a fundraiser to pony up the cash for the project.

New York Archdiocese spokesman Joe Zwilling says, "In connection with our 200-th anniversary each parish had a fundraising program for the needs of their parishes and while the returns overall were great each parish had a limited amount of funds to do the kind of work to get their buildings back in shape."

Zwilling says most diocesan churches are using union painters for the work.


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I have almost weekly dealings with Union DC9 for clients I have.   I have represented companies in front of their kangaroo court and actually had a few of their goons show up to my office to start trouble.     


They are the worst ofthe worst.   A helper alone costs the contractor about $50 an hour.  A Helper! 

I hope the church goes out with holy water and douses these freaks with it.     

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Video at site. 

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Labor spat breaks out at Grace Church on Broadway over use of non-union painters
BY Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, March 18th 2011, 4:00 AM

 
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Union painters protest outside of Grace Church on Broadway in the East Village after the parish switched to non-union labor for its painting. An unholy uproar has erupted at an East Village church undergoing renovation after the parish dumped union painters for a non-union firm.

Angry members of the painters union have been protesting outside the historic Grace Church on Broadway since early this month - and they brought their enormous inflatable rat with them.

"We mean no disrespect to the church," said Jack Kittle, political director of the Painters & Allied Trades, District Council 9. "For us, it's a worksite. I wish we could pick where we could do the fighting.

"Making sure workers are treated fairly is a religion to us. We will be there until they either decide to do the right thing or the job's over."


The majestic Episcopal church hired union painters for the first phase of the sanctuary restoration. But a nonunion firm, John Tiedemann Inc., was awarded the contract for the second phase, drawing the union's ire.

Ray Tiedemann, owner of the New Jersey-based painting company, blasted the union's tactics as sacrilege.

"It's a disgrace they're doing that to the church," Tiedemann said. "We're in there doing the proper job at the right price."

Church officials took the high road, expressing "great disappointment" with the protest but opting out of the war of words.

"We have no institutional bias toward or against organized labor," church officials said in a statement, adding that a "shift to union painters would increase the total labor cost of painting and decorating by 50%."

One parishioner said the union protesters should hit the road.

"If they want to fight for something, they're supposed to go somewhere else," Linda Oskinska, 28, said as she glanced at the 12-foot-tall rat parked near E. 10th St. "Not stay here."

rschapiro@nydailynews.com


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50% inflationary costs by using these jerkoffs. 

[Straw Man]

Who gives a shit