Current Events Week 11

Due to the Hurricane that hit NYC last week many people rushed to help those affected by the storm. Unfortunately, a utility's crew from Alabama was unable to help because of a union dispute with a union from New Jersey. The New Jersey union said that only their workers could work in the area. The crew was waiting to help when their paperwork they filed which would make them be able to help was denied by the union. The crew was denied the right to work their and returned back to Alabama. I don't think it was right for the NJ union to not let the crew help because they were trying to help. Clearly the NJ union cant handle the workload now so it is not fair to the people of NJ who were affected by Sandy to be denied this help. This affects the country because people who are affected by a disaster shouldn't be denied help just because of union red tape and hopefully somebody decides to change this.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2012/11/02/union-red-tape-in-nj-causes-alabama-recovery-crew-to-head-home/