Update Below: More union thuggary: IATSE union member fired for wearing Bush hat and shirt.

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I totally admit it: I hate unions. Private, public, you name it. I hate what they've become and how they use muscle to hurt people they should be supporting.

This is a case in point.

IATSE Union Member Fired for Wearing Bush Hat and Shirt


Developing:

Obama’s visit to Los Angeles today has stirred controversy even before he arrived:

A stage worker setting up the stage was fired for refusing to remove his hat and turn his sweatshirt inside out and the reason? The shirt hat and shirt both had the name “Bush” printed on them but not just any Bush but, that of George H.W. Bush.

The IATSE (Local 33) union fired the worker even after he explained the shirt to his bosses. The shirt didn’t explicitly support George H.W Bush but that of the aircraft carrier named after the former President and the aircraft carrier his son has served on for the past many years and is currently deployed. The union worker was interviewed on KTLA Channel 5 locally in Los Angeles.

The stage hand was identified as Duane Hammet and a distraught Hammet can be seen during his interview very distraught as his support for his son and his service becoming the center piece to his firing.

Now, since there is no doubt that by now, our empty-suited, anti-American racist bigot president knows about this... or his people know about it... the question is this:

What you gonna do about it, Barry?

According to the News Blog at KTLA.com:

***UPDATE: Duane Hammond says union officials called him this afternoon to apologize for the incident. He say they are "bending over backwards" to make it up to him.

HT to Derek Broes at big Hollywood.
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