Just when you thought plans for a new downtown convention hotel were set to go forward, four City-County Council members want
the full council to essentially force the new hotel to employ union workers after it opens.
The City-County Council, which is controlled by Democrats, is preparing to vote on the resolution Monday night.
Council member Joanne Sanders, a Democrat who sponsored the resolution, said it would offer safeguards to keep employers from blocking union organizers.
A Republican council member, Scott Schneider, counters that the resolution is intended as payback to its big labor constituency.
Should the council OK the resolution?
Read the story.
The City-County Council, which is controlled by Democrats, is preparing to vote on the resolution Monday night.
Council member Joanne Sanders, a Democrat who sponsored the resolution, said it would offer safeguards to keep employers from blocking union organizers.
A Republican council member, Scott Schneider, counters that the resolution is intended as payback to its big labor constituency.
Should the council OK the resolution?
Read the story.
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Government has the right to force businesses to have a labor union, when those businesses, who otherwise indicate that they need to be left alone to operate in the free market, ask for handouts from government! If they would forego all of their incentives, then that would render irrelevant anything the council would do.
Anyway, back to what this blog is about, I do believe that if they want government subsidies then protections should be in place for the workers. If they don't want the union, then they better start looking for more money.
And you're wrong, for ONCE we should look to the aesthetics of a building, not completely at the business end, which ALWAYS happens in Indy!