{"id":2044,"date":"2005-03-13T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2018-07-09T10:48:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:48:42","slug":"2044","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/13\/2044\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Business and Big Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local government works for big corporations; however, apparently in Des Moines, the local government also obeys the dicta of big labor.  After all, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050311\/NEWS05\/503110375\/1001&#038;lead=1\" target=\"_new\">threw out a low bid<\/a> for a city contract probably because the low bidder used non-union employees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Des Moines City Council members rejected saving $500,000 on a water detention basin project, turning away all bids because the lowest was too low.<\/p>\n<p>The savings would have been large enough to nearly pay for last year&#8217;s decision to restore power to 4,200 streetlights that had been turned off in a cost-saving move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I respect the council members because I know they have a tough job, but this was&#8221; wrong, said Thelma Saxton, whose family owns Saxton Inc., which employs non-union labor.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of Corell Contractor Inc. of West Des Moines and a lobbyist for the Central Iowa Building and Construction Trades Council contacted council members before this week&#8217;s vote and asked them not to hire Saxton. Corell employs union labor.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa laws do not require cities to use union labor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Silly newspapers.  Laws are for fools, and government sweetness is for corporations and unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local government works for big corporations; however, apparently in Des Moines, the local government also obeys the dicta of big labor. After all, they threw out a low bid for a city contract probably because the low bidder used non-union employees: Des Moines City Council members rejected saving $500,000 on a water detention basin project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20457,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/20457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}