Union Members Disrupt Mortgage Banksters Meeting in DC (VIDEO)

[Joanne98]

Awesome activism from members of the Sheetmetal Workers union (SMWIA), 200 of whom burst into a private meeting of mortgage bankers to protest layoffs by a homebuilding company that got a $900 million in federal funds intended for job creation. The banksters fled the scene, though one said he would have engaged the workers if they had “worn a suit.” (Watch CNBC’s coverage of the protest at the top of this post.)

The protest — aimed at the Pulte Group, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders — quickly turned into a scrum as workers wearing hardhats and shouting through bullhorns overwhelmed the security staff at the JW Marriott, bursting into a crowded conference room before a stunned crowd of bankers.

Shouting “Where are the jobs?” and “Where is the money?” the protesters from the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association and the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, many in overalls and helmets, said taxpayers have provided $900 million in tax breaks to Pulte with the aim of creating jobs. They said they haven’t seen the results they were promised.

“Those tax breaks were supposed to create jobs,” Wayne Peworchik, one of the protesters, said. “That was President Obama’s and Congress’s intent.”

“Instead, Pulte laid off workers,” Peworchik said.

Hilariously, the banksters fled. Scared of the little people, obviously. Tweets from Jon Prior, a reporter in the room, wrote that “banksters and regulators fled” upon the start of the protest

http://workinprogress.firedoglake.com/2011/01/19/union-members-disrupt-mortgage-banksters-meeting-in-dc-video/

[Hardrada]

1. This is a GOOD START!!

Keep them on the run.

[kcks]

2. So

you are supporting violence?

[trumad]

3. Uh---there was no violence....

Are you supporting banksters?

[kcks]

9. They

overwhelmed security at the hotel and went into a private meeting, I consider that violence. If a tea party group did that to a group of Dems. meeting would you still say no violence>?

[socialist_n_TN]

12. It's called civil disobedience and ................

it's got a LONG history. We need a LOT more of it. The parasite class needs to be confronted at every turn by the one's they feed off of.

[WinkyDink]

10. Winner!

Of "The Stupidest Post of the Month."

And you LIKED that Miami invasion of the suits pounding on doors to stop the legal recount, didn't you?

[fascisthunter]

4. AWESOME! (nt)

[sabrina 1]

5. 'Those tax breaks were supposed to create jobs.'

'Instead, Pulte laid off workers'.

So WHHHHHYYYYYYY, was that NOT a condition of the hand out to the wealthy?

'You get no handouts. You get a tax break IF you create jobs'.

If Congress and Obama thought that on their own they would just do something to earn their keep, what I would like to say about that is probably not printable!

[Starry Messenger]

6. k&r

[leftstreet]

7. LOL. "The banksters fled." LOL

:thumbsup:

[Poboy]

8. Recommend

[annabanana]

11. This should happen more often, and be better publicized.

How very satisfying.