
Why We Fight!
Yeah I know ‘why we fight’ was the tagline on a series of world war era propaganda pieces, but it’s also an applicable tagline for this great Union Tribune editorial savaging big labor…
UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL
Labor union greed may kill convention center
July 5, 2007
Suppose a company was willing to:
Pour $850 million of its own money into a local project (an amount sufficient to build a football stadium).
Hire 6,500 construction workers and pay them union-level wages.
Hire 2,000 permanent service-industry employees and allow them to join labor unions, if they choose.
Build the largest hotel and a second convention center in a region that depends upon tourism as its third-largest industry.
Yet, suppose that one labor union wanted even more, to the point that the company said “Goodbye, San Diego” and “Let’s talk, Seattle.”
That pretty much describes the current scenario here. Gaylord Entertainment of Nashville is building a national convention business network and would like to establish a West Coast presence on the Chula Vista bayfront.… Read More