Nick Balzano, president of the Service Employees International Union’s Allentown chapter, said last week that the union might file a grievance against the city for allowing 17-year-old Kevin Anderson to clear the hiking trail, instead of paying some of the 39 recently laid-off SEIU members to do the work.
Balzano’s office did not return messages left by FoxNews.com, but the Morning Call quoted him as telling the city council that the union would be “looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails … There’s to be no volunteers.”
Yeah, we wouldn’t want any friggin’ do-gooder Boy Scouts clearing a thousand foot path of illegally dumped trash and recyclables in a run down part of local park and creating an inviting and enjoyable scenic pathway that will become part of the 165-mile Delaware and Lehigh (D&L) Heritage corridor, now would we. Well, at least not without SEIU’s employees (and therefore SEIU) getting a cut of the profits. It’s much better to charge the taxpayers, fund the union, and keep a kid from getting his Eagle Scout rating. Unions were necessary in their time, but they’ve really outrun their usefulness when they start threatening legal action against volunteering and civic pride.
By the way Nick Balzano, if you’re reading this, you’re a douchebag. And even if Nick Balzano isn’t reading this he’s still a douchebag.
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Douchebag tag…well deserved.
I’d like to see him on the trail.
I would also like to show you this…
http://www.letssaythanks.com/ from Xerox.
I hope Allentown council grows a pair and fires the rest of the Union members.