I’ve seen one of these before, next to my oldest son’s elementary school is a hospital that was building a new wing using non-union labor, the unionists set up one of these giant inflatable rat’s and it was there for almost two months before the hospital caved and gave them some work (I had to drive by it twice a day, on the morning drop-off, then the afternoon pick-up). Total effing disgrace.
Via Bryan Preston:
If you happen to be in Manhattan today, you might have seen this gigantic rubber rat. And check out the sign taped to his chest. Egad — he’s warning passersby that there are bedbugs in the nearby Doubletree Metropolitan hotel! . . .
The union rat isn’t really a bedbug warning at all. There were no customer complaints about sleeping with bedbugs. The “warning” is actually just a protest of the fact that the hotel’s ownership hired a non-union company to perform services, at an entirely different hotel, as the owners are well within their rights to do.