https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exxon-tells-locked-texas-refinery-012031417.html
Seems poor negotiating strategy to tell them (and the world) they are underpaid....
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You just cannot get more 'Murican...
Unions bad, corporate slavery good.
Having actual labor laws to protect employees is a co---e trick, 'aight?
3buo+1dyuYq4r Really? It looks like management at EM are the ones who are lazy and want to get paid without doing any work and are the ones who do nothing to deserve the huge salaries and bonuses they demand as an entitlement. Management at EM should stop living on welfare and try to do competent work for a change. Entitled c suite executives like those at EM are destroying the country. No sympathy for them.
@3ric+ While unions did have a place for improving work conditions and benefits in the past, many also became corrupted (e.g. teamsters) and leave many rank and file members beholden to a few lazy entitled leaders. Most employess nowadays have options and hop jobs. Staying with companies long term will be the exception, so instead of voting for union issues, they'll be voting with thier feet.
I love it's always the Union's fault. Learn some history. Do you like weekends off, 40 hour work week, paid holidays, safe working conditions? Typical company person. Poor management is at fault, not unions.
Unions are what destroyed Detroit and Pittsburgh. They created environment of overpaid people whom were lazy and did just enough to get by while Asia auto and steel makers leapfrogged the us in turning out high quality products that were much more reliable at much lower cost. Unions are a large part of creating the US rust belt. No sympathy at all for union people …show up and do hard work and stop your complaining or move to California and live off state welfare. Unions have created the majority of their own self inflicted problems.
The union works are LOCKED OUT not on strike. The powers to be at EM are trying to union bust. Look at the premier technology center in Clinton NJ, no contract for almost 4 years. The company helped an employee to try and get a desertification vote and then they promoted her only to layoff someone with more experience and knowledge. This company is heartless and immortal.
You can literally goto/DV and look at the utilization. When I checked on Friday, the plant was at 90%. Nowhere near 60%
I heard BMT is running its highest capacity ever.
Can anyone confirm? I hear 95.57% since the lokout
Come on folks. Have we all lost human decency? What if you were the unionized? If you were not, your descendants could be.
Understand that salaried and unionized may have different opinions. Yet, we all share the same motivation - make a living by doing hard work. Please be sensitive to union workers since we are all common man. I'm salaried.
A divide-and-conquer tactic by creating chaos and confusion using short-term $$$ to get ride of the union. Once union is gone, anyone with a brain cell left knows what's coming next. Surprised that EM, with all the talents, could not come up with a more despicable tactic.
Bmt is a craphole of a city and a site. Once glorious has aged and now has fallen behind. Paulsboro 2.0
Beautiful mountain of dew-dew dumped by Auntie EM.
This topic was noted briefly but brutally at the Congressional hearing yesterday.
Beaumont specifically mentioned.
Calling out the 'employment' practices(so many high-paying jobs!) and general disdain for employees shown by EM. So many beautiful jobs destroyed if we change our ways.
EM is not a whipping boy. It's a whipper snapper!
Divideeeeends
@yuYq4r -- Which plant?
@OP -- Bad tactics? Really? You do understand that these latest updates have been aimed at the upcoming decertification vote, yes? I am happy to see that we are willing to play hardball with those dolts.
Another interesting point, I’ve heard a number of managers and senior leaders at the campus bragging about how supervisors at Beaumont are “running the plant” , what they apparently failed to mention is the plant is only running at 60% per the article.