When Union and Environmentalism Clash

[mondo joe]

Plumbers Union Local 690 has come out against the installation of waterless urinals in the Comcast Centre, a 975-foot building that will be the city's tallest when completed in 2007.

Jeanne Leonard, a spokeswoman for Liberty Property Trust, the building's developer, said the urinals had been used in many other buildings around the country and would cut water use by 1.6 million gallons (6 million litres) a year.

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The union opposes the urinals because they do not have water lines and would therefore require less labour than the traditional kind, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. It said Mayor John Street and other local politicians were trying to mediate the dispute.


http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=503072006

[Dr.Phool]

1. I remember when my union was thrown out of the AFL-CIO

Back in the '70s over our opposition to coal slurry pipelines that companies and construction unions wanted to build. They were gigantic pipelines that transported coal through water in the pipelines.

Very polluting, and it would have cost the railroads a lot of jobs.