Home Builder Hosedown: Video Shows Protesting Workers Blasted By Water Truck

Weird news item: Tensions between labor unions and home builder Pulte Homes have escalated to the point where protesting workers in Arizona were hosed down at a home construction site, as this YouTube video documents.

From the AFL-CIO's news blog: "The construction workers were protesting at a Pulte Homes construction site in Florence, Ariz., last month demanding that the home builder and its subcontractors pay decent wages and provide safe working conditions.... The video shows a Pulte representative obviously frustrated at workers demonstrating at the site. After he leaves, a water truck, normally used to dampen the desert dust at construction sites, arrives and repeatedly douses workers with high-pressure water. As soon as the truck passes, it goes into reverse to soak workers again with water, as they try to avoid the painful spray."

Pulte tells CNBC's Realty Check blog the truck was driven by a subcontrator, the argument is really between the unions and subcontractors, and the AFL-CIO has been harassing Pulte.

Thanks for the link: CNBC's Realty Check
Photo Credit: AFLCIO.org

Comments

[buz algood]

Painful spray? More like refreshing. What is it in Phoenix these days 110, 115 degrees?

[Don]

When did union guys turn into such sissies that they talk about "painful" water spray? Those trucks have slightly higher PSI than a garden hose.

[Willie]

What you ever been hit with a water spray. Trust me it not pleasant regardless of how hot the Phoenix sun is. The driver should have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.