Freedom

Outsourcing the Picket Line: Carpenters Union Hires Homeless to Stage Protests

A few picketers gyrate and dance while chanting: "What do we want? Fair wages. When do we want them? Now." Although their placards identify the picketers as being with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters, they are not union members. They're hired feet, or, as the union calls them, temporary workers, paid $8 an hour to picket. Many were recruited from homeless shelters or transitional houses. Several have recently been released from prison. Others are between jobs. Full story...

Posted by Editor at July 24, 2007 03:13 AM