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Atticus

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9. "87 percent of the private construction industry is not unionized."

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:55 PM

Mar 2022

THAT, in and of itself, is what is wrong.

Requiring OUR money to only be spent with UNION contractors is not the problem.

Republicans inviting scab-hirers to belly up to the trough is the problem.

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