It seems that a union in Nevada has hired unemployed temporary workers to be pickets at a Wal-Mart in Henderson, Nevada. The workers are standing about in 100-degree-plus heat for the princely sum of $6 an hour (although one is paid about $8 per hour), all to protest “bad working conditions” inside the air-conditioned store which pays workers much more than the union does.

Of course, the picketers are convinced that they somehow are sacrificing themselves for the greater good. According to the account:

They’re not union members; they’re temp workers employed through Allied Forces/Labor Express by the union—United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). They’re making $6 an hour, with no benefits; it’s 104 F, and they’re protesting the working conditions inside the new Wal-Mart grocery store.

“It don’t make no sense, does it?” says James Greer, the line foreman and the only one who pulls down $8 an hour, as he ambles down the sidewalk, picket sign on shoulder, sweaty hat over sweaty gray hair, spitting sunflower seeds. “We’re sacrificing for the people who work in there, and they don’t even know it.”

No doubt, people are standing in long lines to work for this union.