Nonunion Ala. crews turned away from Sandy recovery

[Dutch]

Have you not watched any episode of the Sopranos? LOL

 

[The Infidel]

Can't find the OP and the proceeding arguments that followed regarding whose fault it was that help wasn't getting to victims of the storm.

A friend of mine sent this to me.


Confusion causes utility crew to return from recovery effort - WAFF-TV: News, Weather and Sports for Huntsville, AL

I heard audio earlier of these union thugs calling the guys scabs and that they were not welcome there.
They were told to go home.

 

[waltky]

Non-union rumors not true...

Alabama utilities deny anti-union 'rumor'
Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Three Alabama utility companies Friday denied reports their crews weren't permitted to help restore power in New Jersey because the workers were non-union.

Several conservative media organizations -- including Fox News and the Drudge Report -- picked up a story from an Alabama TV station that crews from Huntsville Utilities and Joe Wheeler Electrical Membership Corp. weren't allowed to help with electrical service restoration in New Jersey because they don't belong to a union. A third Alabama utility, Decatur Utilities, said its employees were asked to affiliate with a union before starting to work on the power restoration in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, AL.com reported.

Huntsville Utilities spokes Bill Yell said nine of his company's employees were working in New Jersey. "That's a rumor," he said of the report that workers who traveled to New Jersey to help out were being turned away. Joe Wheeler EMC said on its website reports that its workers were turned away from Hurricane Sandy relief efforts "are not true." "Joe Wheeler EMC was never commissioned to go to New Jersey or New York," the company said. "Instead, JWEMC sent eight linemen to Denton, Maryland, to help out Choptank Electric Cooperative."

The statement said JWEMC crews were returning to Alabama from Maryland. "Joe Wheeler EMC employees are members of The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - Local 558 union," the company said. "Any reports that claim JWEMC is not unionized are false." Yell and JWEMC spokeswoman Mandi Phillips told AL.com they have been swamped with media inquiries following reports of the matter on cable channels, including Fox News and CNN, as well as in several New Jersey newspapers.

Yell noted that in cases where crews are sent to other states to help in emergencies, "it's not a situation where everybody jumps in truck and heads up there. You have to work through trade associations. You have mutual-aid agreements and you've got to find a system that needs you and is able to take you." He said not all electric systems use the same voltage and technical configurations.

Read more: Alabama utilities deny rumor non-union crews turned away in N.J. - UPI.com

See also:

New Jersey struggles with gas supply
Nov. 2 (UPI) -- New Jersey residents are grappling with gasoline shortages in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy.

U.S. Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg , D-N.J., and Robert Menendez, D-N.J., on Thursday called for U.S. President Barack Obama to release emergency fuel supplies to the state. "We are dealing with a crisis on the ground with rescue and recovery where millions are without power and without basic necessities. Furthermore, our constituents are sitting in lines up to a mile long waiting to fuel their vehicles, tying up local resources that are managing traffic conditions in these areas," the senators wrote in a letter to Obama. "Additional resources" are needed to transport fuel to gasoline stations that have electrical power, the senators said.

As of Thursday, more than 1.7 million customers in New Jersey remained without power, down from more than 2.7 million at the peak of outages, The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, N.J., reports. Without electricity, the gasoline can't be pumped. "This is not a supply problem. This is a delivery problem," Sal Risalvato, executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline, Convenience Store and Automotive Association was quoted as saying by the newspaper. "There is plenty of supply. We just can't get it from those big tanks you see along the (New Jersey) Turnpike through the channels that put it in customers' cars."

About 75 percent of the stations of the approximately 1,000 gas retailers the association represents were closed Thursday either because they had no gasoline or no power or neither of the two. "The quick and dirty is that in the Northeast, about 24 percent of the refining capacity that was in the line of the storm is out," Addison Armstrong of Tradition Energy told CNBC. "That's really just two refineries, the Bayway refinery in New Jersey and another smaller refinery there." Charlie Drevna, head of the American Fuel and Petrochemicals Manufacturers Association, said the service stations are the microcosm of the problems that refiners have of delivering the fuel. "You have service stations that have full tanks and no power, and you have service stations that had fuel and they are running out rapidly," he told Platts news service. "It's just going to take time to get all this sorted out. The problem is power and flooding, whether it's at the refinery or at the terminal or anywhere along the route."

Andrew Lipow, president of the consulting firm Lipow Oil Associates in Houston said that energy operations in the Linden and Bayway area are responsible for about three-quarters of the fuel consumed in the New York metropolitan area. "There's really no amount of catch up that the system can do with all of the Jersey terminals shut down," he told CNBC. "My estimate is it will be seven to 10 days," before the situation normalizes. "It's going to be tough. Stay home. Conserve your gas," Lipow advised.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/En...-gas-supply/UPI-69231351881987/#ixzz2B7N0MTvW

 

[Gadawg73]

Last Sunday I was in West Point Ga. on the Alabama line and saw dozens of power trucks from Alabama headed to NJ to help those folks.
And NJ sends them all home because they are non union.
Does anyone with a fucking brain believe that the folks that need help in NJ GIVE A SHIT IF THEY ARE UNION OR NOT?
Union shop workers=subhuman rats too selfish and stupid to negotiate for themselves.

 

[Oddball]

They reactively hate southerners too, if that's any consolation.

 

[Lakhota]

Links?

 

[del]

this has already been debunked

go piss up a rope, cracker

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/11/huntsville_utilities_denies_cl.html

 

[del]

They reactively hate southerners too, if that's any consolation.

you reactively post bullshit.

 

[Charles_Main]

Oh well if the Union ran Utility Denies it, well that's enough for me.

lol

Fucking blind ass lemmings. It's not secret that the Unions in NYC hold a shit ton of Power, and keep anyone from the outside out. Why would they be any different now.

 

[kyzr]

Christie should step-in and arrest anyone interfering with the non-union workers. Lets see if the MSM picks-up on this outrage like they whined about Katrina. How many deaths will be attributed to union horse-shit??

Where the fuk is BO? Oh,yea, Las Vegas...

 

[del]

Oh well if the Union ran Utility Denies it, well that's enough for me.

lol

Fucking blind ass lemmings. It's not secret that the Unions in NYC hold a shit ton of Power, and keep anyone from the outside out. Why would they be any different now.

it's not a secret that nyc isn't in jersey, either

try again, mercator

 

[American Horse]

All of that nor none of that proves it didn't happen in certain locations because It did. I haven't seen it on Fox but I did hear an audio recording on Sean Hannity's radio program this afternoon starting just after 15:00 Eastern.

The "Jersey" accent of the taunter was unmistakable. See my post a couple up above /\

 

[Lakhota]

Late Friday at a press conference, Hardin said the documents actually came from Electric Cities of Alabama, a coalition of the state's municipally owned utilities.

Bottom line, it appears now that Decatur Utilities wrongly assumed they would have to agree to the union contract before traveling to New Jersey to help with recovery efforts. The IBEW said in times of crisis, help is welcomed from union and non-union utility workers.

More: Confusion causes utility crew to return from recovery effort - WAFF-TV: News, Weather and Sports for Huntsville, AL

 

[Gadawg73]

They reactively hate southerners too, if that's any consolation.

Union workers hate everyone that has a work ethic.

 

[Lakhota]

Another NaziCon fail...

 

[RoadVirus]

clarification
Huntsville, Joe Wheeler utilities deny claims of union discrimination during Sandy response (update) | al.com

Of course they deny it

 

[Old Rocks]

Hmmm....... Is this going to turn out to be another Jeeps in China piece of shit?

 

[Gadawg73]

Links?
Phone calls from the Alabama utility workers. Hello.
IBEW releases lies, distortions and BS.
Slashed tires on many Southern Company vehicles with Alabama tags. NO where for these men to stay as word is out that anyone that harbors them will pay.
NY and NJ are bought by the unions.
Threats on the ground are the reality there now.
Why else are these workers headed home?
Unions=threats, intimidation and violence.

 

[del]

clarification
Huntsville, Joe Wheeler utilities deny claims of union discrimination during Sandy response (update) | al.com

Of course they deny it

of course you're stupid

 

[del]

Links?
Phone calls from the Alabama utility workers. Hello.
IBEW releases lies, distortions and BS.
Slashed tires on many Southern Company vehicles with Alabama tags. NO where for these men to stay as word is out that anyone that harbors them will pay.
NY and NJ are bought by the unions.
Threats on the ground are the reality there now.
Why else are these workers headed home?
Unions=threats, intimidation and violence.

fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.