Irony: Unions Hire Non-Union Employees at Minimum Wage to Picket

What do you do when you can't inconvenience your own union members to stand and picket? A lot of unions are hiring unemployed workers at minimum wage to do it for them.

"For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else," explains Vincente Garcia, a union representative who is supervising the picketing.

So instead, the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage—$8.25 an hour—to walk picket lines. Mr. Raye says he's grateful for the work, even though he's not sure why he's doing it. "I could care less," he says. "I am being paid to march around and sound off."

When unions hire people at minimum wage, it's simply helping out another American who is down on his luck and needs a job. If a company does it, however, it's "anti-worker." That's liberal thinking for you.