Open Letters

The members of the Circle Group Truth web team get a lot of feedback from our web site visitors.

Some of it comes in the form of helpful suggestions. Sometimes we get a colorful rant. Lately, we've been getting something that's very disturbing:

Cries of pain from inside the netherworld of Southeastern Carpenters Regional Council union employees who've been run out of jobs.

As anyone who's ever worked for a union can attest, union headquarters' jobs are all too often run on politics, fear, and intimidation. Even those hardy souls who come to work for a union with the idea of serving a common good can be quickly ground down by the practiced intimidation and political tactics of a union thug.

What we've heard over and over again from dissident union employees is the psychological toll that bully tactics used in the Southeastern Carpenters Regional Council "corporate campaign" have taken on the internal morale of union employees.

How does this work? Imagine if your public image in Atlanta is defined by homeless paid-by-the-hour "demonstrators" screaming at office tenants in downtown Atlanta. Imagine if your public image in Atlanta is defined by these same demonstrators shouting at parents and loved ones trying to get into the Shepherd Center to see critically injured patients. Image if your public representatives scream "bitch" and "faggot" at passersby whose only crime is working in an office building the union has targeted.

Imagine if your job depends on your willingness to search through data bases to find out where the children of your organizing targets are attending pre-schools, and then send busses full of demonstrators to march in front of those pre-schools. Imagine if you go to work for a union hoping to do good and everything you stand for is sold out to an $8-an-hour hired screamer who's only being paid to act like an idiot because the real union members will have nothing to do with a sidewalk freak show.

Now, try to put yourself in the shoes of the man who wrote this letter to our website. He's a man who's plainly hurting.

Sometimes, voices in the wilderness are painful to listen to. But in the end, those with compassion must listen.

The Circle Group Truth Web Team