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Can hall hold the fort without Hoffa Jr?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 1374720" data-attributes="member: 14176"><p>Chuck, I do think you have been lied to, just not by the people you suspect.</p><p>See, unlike you, I didn't accept what I read or was told as fact or fiction.</p><p>Instead, I used a single day vacation and drove to Louisville the night before and spent the whole day standing outside the employee entrance to Worldport hand billing with several Local 89 officials and front line stewards in late February.</p><p>I watched "dots" on the horizon turn into real people as they trudged as far as a half a mile from their car to the gate in sub-freezing temperatures and wind driven snow, only to face a lengthy shuttle to their work area.</p><p>I spoke with scores of employees, most half my age, and not one was talking about healthcare.</p><p>These are young men and women, mostly college students, who are there to earn tuition, housing and money.</p><p>It was apparent that health benefits were far down on their list of priorities, as I suspect many were still covered on Mom and Dads plan or felt they didn't need them as most of us did when we were young and "invincible".</p><p>They routinely spend as much as 2 hrs shuttling to and from an enormous employee parking lot, to earn as little as 3.5 hrs of pay.</p><p>Make no mistake Chuck, they were absolutely holding out for the shuttle issue and several other working condition issues.</p><p>While your assertions about holding out for healthcare may have been true for those voting on the Ohio Rider, Western Pa and Metro Philly, this simply wasn't the case in Local 89's Worldport employees.</p><p>They got screwed by the ridiculous Art12 sec 6 of the IBT Constitution that most assuredly needs amending at the next Convention.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bubblehead, post: 1374720, member: 14176"] Chuck, I do think you have been lied to, just not by the people you suspect. See, unlike you, I didn't accept what I read or was told as fact or fiction. Instead, I used a single day vacation and drove to Louisville the night before and spent the whole day standing outside the employee entrance to Worldport hand billing with several Local 89 officials and front line stewards in late February. I watched "dots" on the horizon turn into real people as they trudged as far as a half a mile from their car to the gate in sub-freezing temperatures and wind driven snow, only to face a lengthy shuttle to their work area. I spoke with scores of employees, most half my age, and not one was talking about healthcare. These are young men and women, mostly college students, who are there to earn tuition, housing and money. It was apparent that health benefits were far down on their list of priorities, as I suspect many were still covered on Mom and Dads plan or felt they didn't need them as most of us did when we were young and "invincible". They routinely spend as much as 2 hrs shuttling to and from an enormous employee parking lot, to earn as little as 3.5 hrs of pay. Make no mistake Chuck, they were absolutely holding out for the shuttle issue and several other working condition issues. While your assertions about holding out for healthcare may have been true for those voting on the Ohio Rider, Western Pa and Metro Philly, this simply wasn't the case in Local 89's Worldport employees. They got screwed by the ridiculous Art12 sec 6 of the IBT Constitution that most assuredly needs amending at the next Convention. [/QUOTE]
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