Don’t urinate on my leg…

...and tell me it’s raining. From the Columbia Flier:

Buddy Mays, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 27, which represents unionized grocery store employees, is challenging that ruling [a Planning Board decision to specifically allow Wegmans to be built in Columbia].

Mays said he filed the complaint as a Howard County resident and not as a representative of the union. He said that he does not yet know if the union will pay his legal bills in the matter, adding that it might.

So, to recap, the President of a union is creating legal problems for a non-union grocer, and the Local 27 may be footing the legal bills for their President to do this. But, the union president claims to be filing the complaint as a “concerned citizen” and not a union representative. Uh, huh.

Here is another claim made by the Local 27 president:

"These big box stores devastate an area," Mays said. "A lot of people like to shop at these stores but it doesn't help workers."

Even if those employees get jobs at a new Wegmans, they lose vacation time and pensions that they have accrued over years at other jobs, as well as face a waiting period before their new health insurance coverage begins, he said.

So, are we to assume that when employees come to work for a UFCW employer, they carry all of their vacation and benefits that they accrued from their previous employer? Has this clown ever switched jobs?