Just so you know, there were a couple of people down in south texas starting a organization of clean up crews for the oil spill, given that the government was giving contracts out to groups that were going to help. well they couldn't get a contract because they weren't part of any union and were told not to go help clean up the oil because they weren't part of a union.
For the a while there even the governor of florida was being told to not help in the cleanup and not to send people there to clean up because the federal government was not going to pay them if they were not using Union workers..
How's that for action...