Construction SCABS working on White House???

[Ernesto]

WTF is up with this?.... Where are the pickets?

..... "General Services Administration working for a Democratic President hired a non-union contractor to do the second phase of this project."

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/08/13/we-cant-retore-our-country-if-we-underpay-the-folks-restoring-our-buildings/

[TacticalPeek]

1. If you stand with working people, you are the worst sort of Professional Leftist.

The effective kind.

[QC]

2. Standing with working people is simply not sensible. n/t

[LaydeeBug]

9. It's just unrealistic. nt

[QC]

10. We must learn to be pragmatic. n/t

[Political Tiger]

3. "working for a Democratic President"

Yes, I'm sure Obama had a hand in this......
:sarcasm:

(Why am I not surprised this hit piece comes from Firedoglake and that there are no links or facts provided by "emptywheel" of Firedoglake to back up this claim?)

[Ernesto]

6. Try this on for size

http://patrickhenrypress.info/node/258132

[Fla_Democrat]

4. 1-1 on 1-1 Solidarity, brothers.

:smoke:

[Brickbat]

5. WTF is this shit right here?

It's not even a PLA? What the fuck?

[TheKentuckian]

7. GSA is whorish

[slampoet]

8. Better than the Slaves they used to have working on it, but not much better.

[tammywammy]

11. I would assume there was a bidding process involved

And I believe the govt is bound to the lowest bid.

[MajorChode]

12. There is a bidding process involved and they are not necessarily bound to the lowest bid

There are a few reasons why they can reject a lower bid, such as prior history with substandard work or if they are unable to demonstrate they are capable of doing the work.

There are very specific rules they must follow. There's also a lot of hoops that bidders have to jump through before they can even bid on such projects. Bids are subject to legal review if someone can make a case that they weren't done properly. Union membership is not one of the criteria that federal contracts go by, nor can it have any bearing on the government's decision. That's why the article reference by the OP is complete shit. It's simply intended to inflame without providing all the information needed to form an objective opinion.

I'm all for contractors who hire union employees, but the bottom line is they have to compete for federal contracts just like everyone else. If they think GSA did something that's against the government's rules, they can challege GSA's decision in federal court.