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DNC Planners Provide Stark Contrast With Choice Of Union-Free Stadium

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 17th, 2012 at 08:31 PM  | 

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Nearly a year ago, the Democratic National Committee opened a wound with union bosses, the Democratic party’s biggest financial backers, by choosing Charlotte, NC as the host-city for its 2012 convention. While the circumstances that led to the decision to choose one of the least unionized states in the nation may have been a union turf war, the DNC convention planners have tried to make up for it by discriminating against union-free vendors.

Nevertheless, the AFL-CIO’s Building & Construction Trades Division has chosen to boycott the convention entirely and, now, DNC convention planners may just have added more salt to union bosses’ wound by choosing the venue for Obama to make his acceptance speech at Charlotte’s Bank of America stadium—a stadium built by non-union labor.

[via the Daily Caller]

Bank of America Stadium, the Charlotte, N.C. sports area that has been proposed as the site where President Obama will accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for a second term in the White House, was built entirely with nonunion labor, The Daily Caller has learned.

Brett McMahon, president of Miller & Long DC, Inc., told TheDC it’s ironic that the Democratic National Committee is discussing the venue as a likely locale for Obama’s re-nomination ceremony, since the president has long-standing political alliances with America’s biggest and wealthiest labor unions

[snip]

“The majority of the companies that built the stadium were members of Associated Builders & Contractors,” McMahon told TheDC. “It is a great example of a grand monument that was built entirely union-free.”

And unlike many sports facilities, he added, “there was very, very little public expenditure” for the stadium. “It stands as an outstanding example of the free enterprise system at work.”

To millions of Americans watching Barack Obama’s acceptance speech on TV this September, the DNC’s convention planners have unknowingly provided a stark contrast between a man built by union labor and a stadium built by free enterprise.

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Cross-posted on LaborUnionReport.com

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  • Adjoran

    The Democratic Party is composed of a coalition of competing interests, all seeking taxpayer largesse from the government. Sooner or later, the available slice of the pie was bound to cause priorities to collide.

    For instance, gay activists are always claiming they are “born this way” but suppose science does discover a “gay gene.” Suppose again that some couples weigh their options and begin aborting gay babies before birth, much in the way Chinese abort girls to increase their chances for a boy under the “one child policy” of the PRC.

    Imagine the huge fight between the LGBT crowd and the abortion-uber-alles crowd. There will be blood.

    This is what’s happening in Charlotte, beginning with the convention being awarded to a city in a right-to-work state. Having won the state in ’08, it is in Obama’s interest to curry favor, but most of the city is built and served by non-union labor.

    Democrats had put off conflict by promising to use as much union labor that they could at the convention – it was left unsaid whether they would bring in union thugs, I mean workers, from out of state if there weren’t enough Tarheels with union cards.

    But private sector unions have only one method of keeping any power and any members: force, with the promise of pain. As with Boeing, they NEED to punish employers for not using their labor, or they will have no members left. So look for some cracks in the seamless wall of unity between Democrats and Big Labor.