Meet John Hutchings: Lining Union Pockets With YOUR Money
20th July 2012
John Hutchings, the boss of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, says that New York’s 2009 “Green Jobs/Green New York” law, costing taxpayers some $112 million, is “bulls**t,” according to James O’Keefe’s and the Project Veritas’s latest blockbuster video.
But this waste of taxpayer dollars didn’t upset Mr. Hutchings. To the contrary – as a member of the Working Families Party, which actually drafted the legislation, he was quite pleased about it. And no wonder; much of this wasted cash went right to union pockets. Green Jobs/Green Work sought to create 60,000 jobs and 14,250 “living wage” jobs, all of them dues paying. The Obama Labor Department, meanwhile, would require any contract doing weatherization to pay union wages.