Liberal Rapper Jay-Z in Tiff With Union Over Nightclub Renovations
Rapper Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, has a long record of being a supporter of Democratic and liberal causes. In fact, he was one of many celebrity left-wingers who were invited to President Obama's lavish $40,000 birthday celebration.
When it comes to his own affairs, Carter is like many Hollywood liberals in being unwilling to put his money where his mouth is. Right now, he's engaged in a prolonged confrontation with a carpenter's union for using non-union workers to perform renovations on a New York City club he owns. The union thugs are playing to type as well, parading around giant inflatable rats and calling Carter's employees racist terms.
Hip-hop hot shot Jay-Z is getting hammered by carpenters for using nonunion labor for the facelift of his Manhattan club 40/40.
But the carpenters union, which erected five inflatable rats outside the Chelsea joint this week, has gone too far by shouting the N-word at management, according to Jay-Z's rep.
"The union is trying to bully 40/40 to hire union workers. They were shouting racial slurs. It was really inappropriate protesting," said Lauren Menache, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn-born singer.
The union members used the "N-word" during protests and in phone calls to 40/40 management, said Menache.
The New York City District Council of Carpenters did not return calls for comment.
This is flagrant bullying. Carter's club is in a building which does not have a forced union monopoly on construction and yet they are trying to force him to use their more expensive services anyway. I guess this is exactly the sort of thing that Teamsters Union president James Hoffa meant when he said he wanted to "take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong."
One hopes that it will make Carter reconsider some of his opinions. Don't count on it though.
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→ Hoffa's Union Buddies
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:21pm.
Nothing more racist than a liberal. Here we have another situation where Democrat Liberals attempt to exert ownership of black people.
Stand up to them, Jay-Z . Somebody needs to expose the Nu-Klux Klan.
Yikes! You're monkeying around again, I hope
Submitted by Einstein on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:29pm.
Union construction workers in NYC are all Democrat Liberals? Surely you jest, jester. Since when does the employee own the owner? You've created quite a word circus here.
♡ Einstein
→ Try to keep up
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:35pm.
Are you claiming the carpenter's union has the right to decide who gets work and who doesn't?
Looks to me like an organization, not involved in the transaction, is exerting ownership of the contract.
When does the employee own the owner?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 11:48pm.
You're kidding, right? Uh, can you say union thug?
Just 90% or so
Submitted by ckc1227 on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 12:52am.
Union construction workers in NYC are all Democrat Liberals?
But no, not all of them, technically.
hay newsbusters
Submitted by no you cant on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:44pm.
get the audio of these racist pinko union thugs throwing out the N word, that will come in handy when these freaks call the tea party racist with zero proof.
Laughable
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:25pm.
It's all fun and games until it costs a liberal hard cash out of his own pocket.
A FIVE rat job?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:49pm.
I come from a family of union carpenters (the carpenters pioneered the rat) - I will go on record in saying that a 5 rat-deployment is unprecedented.
So I would humbly request that the NY carpenters move four of those rats to Gracie Mansion until the 9-11 ceremony.
Spelling
Submitted by SmartyMarty on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:50pm.
Renovation
Thanks. I noticed that right
Submitted by Matthew Sheffield on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:57pm.
Thanks. I noticed that right before reading this comment :)
When libs collide
Submitted by Marcus Porcius on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:57pm.
It's always so delicious! I love to watch libs go after each other.
Hey Jay-Z, is the Tea Party out front? Nope it's your boy Obama's people calling your staff the "n-word" isn't it?
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." G.K. Chesterton
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Is there a way...
Submitted by hoystory on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:03pm.
...to work this so that both sides lose?
Rats
Submitted by Joe W. on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:30pm.
Union thugs and gangsta rappers. Would be great if they all just "took each other's sonofabitches out"....
I am confused
Submitted by Franksam on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:37pm.
You'd think that the Democrats have proven their love for non-white people to a point that a few racial slurs between friends could be accepted in the spirit in which they are presesnted. I mean, it's a totally different thing to be call a n***** by a racist, isn't it?.
Its a hard knock life.
Submitted by clever on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:54pm.
Its a hard knock life.
Ding, ding, ding...
Submitted by TheDeuce on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 11:18pm.
...and the winner is...clever!
Give a liberal man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Oh, and you also get called an "a-hole" for not giving him another fish every single day for the rest of his life.
Z, is experiencing what is
Submitted by jdhawk on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 10:50pm.
Z, is experiencing what is called, "take the sons of bitches, out!" lol
Keep voting dimocRAT, dumbass.
By the way, can you imagine the hustle on the part of our "watch dog" media to report a conservative saying the "N" word to a black man. Meanwhile, where is the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus? No "Justice Brothers?" Cindy Sheehan . . . Anybody????
Park this incident in the "news you will never hear on the news, news."
What goes around comes around - ask any epidemiologist.
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 11:20pm.
Sooner or later these liberal idiots resort to political cannibalism. They can't help themselves. An amoral lot, they are no better than sewer rats.
Not so liberal strong arm tactics
Submitted by TerryWest on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 12:37am.
Current and former residents at a luxury building in Philadelphia partly owned by hip-hop star Jay-Z say the music mogul's legal team has been relentlessly harassing them to leave until they give up and vacate the premises, FoxNews.com has learned.
"I'm scared of Jay-Z," says a tenant of 603 North American Street......
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/09/07/jay-z-using-scare-tactic...
Typical rich lib hypocrite
Submitted by Truestar on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 4:00am.
JayZ is a punk to begin with---and a rapper---so that's two strikes. To top it off, he's a typical rich lib hypocrite.
Strike three.
Hahahahahaha!!!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 6:27am.
Using the 'N' word? As in 'Non-union'?
Another black liberal Democrat..
Submitted by uhohshortsonthe... on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 8:43am.
..learns the hard way that his party is not going to stick by him, especially when money is involved. Jay-Z is another clueless entertainment yahoo who doesn't realize, or refuses to learn that his political party is the party of the KKK, anti-civil rights, Jim Crow laws, etc.