Two US construction unions backed by the AFL-CIO took the fight for decent jobs straight to the mortgage bankers association of America.
The protest -- aimed at the Pulte Group, one of the nation's largest homebuilders -- quickly turned into a scrum as workers wearing hardhats and shouting through bullhorns overwhelmed the security staff at the JW Marriott, bursting into a crowded conference room before a stunned crowd of bankers. "Where are the jobs?" and "Where is the money?" the protesters from the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association and the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, said taxpayers have provided $900 million in tax breaks! About 200 union workers interrupted a meeting of mortgage bankers at a posh hotel last Wednesday: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/19/union-protest-mortgage-bankers-summit_n_811003.html
