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TagsBY BOB HOLT
Seaside Heights was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and many of their boardwalk rides landed in the ocean. But if reports are true, the town figures they’ll take care of matters themselves.
Volunteer utility teams from Alabama to help restore power were allegedly turned away from the area by New Jersey crews because they were not unionized.
According to waff.com in Huntsville, Decatur Utilities worker Derrick Moore said a crew of Decatur workers was told that they couldn’t work in Seaside Heights since their employees didn’t belong to a union.
Thousands of residents in that Jersey shore city are still without electricity. NBC 10 Philadelphia reports that Seaside Heights suffered about $1 billion in damages from the hurricane.
The Daily Caller reported that Alabama teams from Decatur and Huntsville went to Long Island instead. A crew from the Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Co-op that was reportedly turned away has gone home.
The most prevalent union for electric repair work in New Jersey is the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, of the AFL-CIO.
Many parts of the New Jersey coast are expected to be without power for seven to ten more days.
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"That's a rumor," he said. "We are starting work this morning with Long Island Power Authority. We were headed to a New Jersey utility but they had all the crews they could handle."
A spokeswoman for Joe Wheeler Electrical Membership Cooperative said the crews from Trinity also are assisting with storm recovery and, in fact, are unionized.
"It is not true for us," she said. "I don't know how we got lumped in there (in that report). We sent eight guys to Maryland, not New Jersey. They have been there since before the storm but they've finished work and are headed home this morning."
you only have a right to work if your part of a union??????