You listen to Imans? I don't, but he has the endorsement of half the rabbis in NYC.
As far as the unions go, that is SOP for any unions in NYC. I used to work in the towers. It was union work to plug in a PC. That is right, I had to get an electrican to plug the plug into an outlet. Unions were raping Ground Zero long before it was Ground Zero.
I did a show in Chiacgo and Holly cow with the Union rules.
We needed Teamsters to bring in the crates.
Carpenters to open the crates.
Rigers to take the items out of the crate.
And electricians to plug in the displays.
The really big thing was I had to take the back drops out of the case, set them up for the carpenter to see how to do it, then take it down, pack it back up and let him do it. What really ticked me off was I said "just set up the other one, double the time and I will sign the ticket, I have a few other things to do to set up the booth." and NO I had to waiste my time. Not to mention all the standing around time waiting for he next union to show up.
But I can see those silly rules driving them nuts.
The Unions were needed at one point, now the unions are all about the union leadership and not the members. The Union rules are driving up costs that keep more work from being done. The UPS strike of the mid 90's proved it to me. The Drivers just broke even last year on the raise vs the time they were not working. The whole strike was over the Billion $ trust fund UPS had for the drivers. When UPS managed the fund 100% of the profits went into growing the trust fund, when the Union took it over they take 20% of all profits off the top for managing the fund. So if the fund was making 5% of the Billion after all the pay outs on a 10% return. Or growing by 50 million a year. Now that the union is in charge they take 20 million off the top. Diminishing the drivers retiremnet fund.