Spread the word…
On Sunday, April 2nd at 1:00 PM
Come to Love Park
And
Tell the Plumbers’ Union
they can’t flush progress!
Come out and show the unions and local politicians that you support the use of waterless urinals to make the Comcast tower the TALLEST GREEN BUILDING IN AMERICA!
Bring your inflatable rats, bring your toilet tricycles, bring your silly protest signs!

Our guess is that you’d have a better chance of getting laid at an anti-abortion rally.

Let the local politicians know that they have constituents who will support them in taking on out of control unions!

Plans for Comcast’s new office building at 17th and Market call for innovative green technologies that will make the building the tallest green building in the country. As Philadelphia continues to attract attention as an emerging world city, a project like this is paramount to our fair city’s growth in the modern global economy. Progressive projects bring progressive businesses and progressive solutions to urban challenges.

Unions are a vital part of this city and have served a pivotal role in getting Philadelphia where it is today. They have protected workers’ rights and have won many important battles on behalf of our fellow Philadelphians in the trades. However, times are changing and some of the arcane stances of the unions must change to allow for our city to continue its recent growth.

For the new Comcast tower to be certified as a green building, the architects have designed bathrooms that will used waterless urinals. The plumbers’ union, Local 690, has threatened stop the building from using this new green technology. (see Inga Saffron’s Inky article) Here at the facts about the urinals:

-they will save an estimated 1.6 million gallons of water a year
-using less water will ease the strain on the city’s already over worked sewage system
-not just environmentally friendly, these urinals are more sanitary and make for less odor
-the urinals still have drains and will still be installed an services by the unions
-installation of these urinals may cause a shift in some jobs, but will likely not cause a loss of jobs for the unions
-the Philadelphia chapter of the EPA supports the use of these urinals
-waterless urinals are found in dozens of buildings around the country, including at Walt Disney World and in an elementary school in Pittsburgh

Let’s give the plumbers’ union a taste of their own medicine and protest their ignorant stanceÖbecause when plumbers act like this, they ain’t sh*t.

Brought to you by Philadelphians for a More Progressive Philadelphia

Related: The Compleat Philebrity Waterless Toilet Archive

This entry was posted on Monday, March 27th, 2006 at 11:31 am.