Comments on: Unions in Philly Racist? http://www.bloggernews.net/112559 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:03:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/112559#comment-162126 Nancy Reyes Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:25:27 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/112559#comment-162126 Construction unions traditionally tapped relatives to fill jobs as apprentices...even twenty years ago, the Philly unions were forced to hire "minority" workers. (It was not a racial thing: My brother was the wrong "ethnic group" to work construction). But this will backfire: their object is to hire "minorities", but non union work now includes a lot of hardworking but often illegal Mexicans and Central Americans.... Construction unions traditionally tapped relatives to fill jobs as apprentices…even twenty years ago, the Philly unions were forced to hire “minority” workers. (It was not a racial thing: My brother was the wrong “ethnic group” to work construction).

But this will backfire: their object is to hire “minorities”, but non union work now includes a lot of hardworking but often illegal Mexicans and Central Americans….

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