Trade Show Exhibit Display Booths

Does anyone here attend trade shows and deal with the union "help"?

I'm in the shipping industry, and many clients use my company to ship their exhibit materials to trade shows. The horror stories about the union "decorators" at convention centers are unbelievable! My clients are astonished when they are charged more for these thugs to move their booths from the shipping dock to the show floor than it took for my company to ship it across ten states! The union creeps are universally rude, unhelpful, belligerent and drop whatever they are doing to take their contracted breaks. Do-nothing thugs. All of them. Just wait until they get their hands on our health care!

Public Comments

1. Funny, I'm in the same industry and while not in our international exhibitions group, have heard endless union stories re: prices, breaks, overtimes, strikes, etc. The union makes it impossible for us to preserve margins of be competitive. It's insane and I couldn't agree more with your observations. It's amazing how many of them on site can be greased for favors. Leaches!!
2. Huh, interesting. I am intimately involved in the trade show circuit, and have nothing but respect for the hard work and professionalism of the union workers I constantly come in contact with.
3. I had to set up an exhibit in a convention center, and I got in trouble because I plugged an extension cord into an outlet to power the equipment. I had to call one of their electricians to do it, he took three and a half hours to arrive, and it took him twenty minutes to do something I could have done in two. However, I don't happen to see what that has anything to do with health care.
4. The way hes destroyjng America his name fits him to a tee