If you were going to start your own business, what things would you do to make sure that you have a steady stream of cash from your customers? Would you create a product that was so irresistable that people couldn't stay away? Would you lower your cost to be more competative with your rivals? Or would you lock your customers into contracts that they have very little hope of escaping from? It seems that IAM 933 has chosen option number three.
You may not be aware that you can get out of the union. I did and so can you. However, the restraints on you doing so, are usually too much for the busy workers that we are to notice. You have to send a certified letter to the union and the company in order to resign from the union. But wait, it gets better. There is a window of only two weeks a year when this may be done. You have to do it "not more than twenty (20) and not less than five (5) days prior to the expiration of each yearly period or of each applicable collective Bargaining Agreement..." This means that if you do not resign from the union in this two week window, then you are automatically enrolled for another year. What a business plan!!!
Fortunately, there are ways to find out when your anniversary of joining the union is. You can contact HR at the company. They have all that information on file and will provide it to you if you request it. You could request it from the union, but let's be honest here, they already try to lock in you permanently enough and both of us know that they are not going to easily come forth with that information. So I urge anyone still paying union dues to find out what your anniversary date with the union is. It is not necessarily the same as your start date at the company, so don't assume it is.
The union has had dwindling numbers as people have slowly started to realize the lies that the "leadership" spreads. All the "free" memberships and attempts to coerce new employees into joining will not help keep their numbers up. Too many people have begun to see the light and see through the lies. Are you going to be one of them?
Monday, March 24, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
All for one and one for all...
I know it's been a while, but there is so much to say about the situation we find ourselves in that I should be making more regular posts.
The union sure has a line that they work for EVERYBODY. If that is the case, then why in the hell did Mr. Martinez and many of the other union staff get raises every year while those of us that they represent got nothing? How many years did we go without a raise? Yet, if you glance over at the union's financial filings, Mr. Martinez just kept getting paid more and more. And what did WE get in return? NOTHING! That is a great business plan, as long as your customers don't realize you are bilking them dry.
And speaking of fighting for everyone...why don't they fight for everyone when they are at the negotiating table? The last two times, red-circle has been a big issue. "Everyone should get treated equal," was the mantra. Yet, when the contract was presented to the members, red circled was still there and not only that, but there were targeted raises for certain occupations. WTF? So obviously, the union fights for those it likes...ahhhh...more nepotism.
Soon I will be posting some legalese on what the union can and cannot say or do and what we as employees can and cannot say and do. They have had the run of the roost for too long. Their intimidation tactics, lies, and flat out law breaking activities will cease and we can all make sure of it. How many times have you heard a die hard brainwashed union officer say something to the effect of, "Without the union, you are an at will employee and the company will fire you?" That is illegal. This intimidation will end.
I have a family member in IAM that openly brags about how it takes him almost 3 times as long to do a job now that he's "older". He is 51 years-old. That is not advanced age. Yet he expects to be compensated more for doing less? And he is going to blame others for not getting his way. Those that crossed to take care of their families (because the union sure as hell wasn't) are the scapegoats for the utter lack of action from this union. You ever notice that it is always someone else's fault with this union. Not once in my entire employment at Raytheon has this union admitted that they could have done something differently or better. Instead, they blame everyone else.
I am not responsible for YOUR failures IAM 933. I actually did a lot to help you guys out, as did others that you have spurned. Now you have to deal with the fact that the employees you were supposed to look out for are sick and tired of you. Not the company...not the corporate...not anyone else...it's the members you were supposed to fight for. I, for one, will not be sad to see your little group kicked out of my workspace.
The union sure has a line that they work for EVERYBODY. If that is the case, then why in the hell did Mr. Martinez and many of the other union staff get raises every year while those of us that they represent got nothing? How many years did we go without a raise? Yet, if you glance over at the union's financial filings, Mr. Martinez just kept getting paid more and more. And what did WE get in return? NOTHING! That is a great business plan, as long as your customers don't realize you are bilking them dry.
And speaking of fighting for everyone...why don't they fight for everyone when they are at the negotiating table? The last two times, red-circle has been a big issue. "Everyone should get treated equal," was the mantra. Yet, when the contract was presented to the members, red circled was still there and not only that, but there were targeted raises for certain occupations. WTF? So obviously, the union fights for those it likes...ahhhh...more nepotism.
Soon I will be posting some legalese on what the union can and cannot say or do and what we as employees can and cannot say and do. They have had the run of the roost for too long. Their intimidation tactics, lies, and flat out law breaking activities will cease and we can all make sure of it. How many times have you heard a die hard brainwashed union officer say something to the effect of, "Without the union, you are an at will employee and the company will fire you?" That is illegal. This intimidation will end.
I have a family member in IAM that openly brags about how it takes him almost 3 times as long to do a job now that he's "older". He is 51 years-old. That is not advanced age. Yet he expects to be compensated more for doing less? And he is going to blame others for not getting his way. Those that crossed to take care of their families (because the union sure as hell wasn't) are the scapegoats for the utter lack of action from this union. You ever notice that it is always someone else's fault with this union. Not once in my entire employment at Raytheon has this union admitted that they could have done something differently or better. Instead, they blame everyone else.
I am not responsible for YOUR failures IAM 933. I actually did a lot to help you guys out, as did others that you have spurned. Now you have to deal with the fact that the employees you were supposed to look out for are sick and tired of you. Not the company...not the corporate...not anyone else...it's the members you were supposed to fight for. I, for one, will not be sad to see your little group kicked out of my workspace.
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