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Voting Yourself Out of a Job

Wisconsin has recently been treated to a Keystone Cops performance by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM), which seems intent on putting its own members out of work. The story by now is familiar: employees of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac voted down an offer to keep 800 jobs from moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Must read this article before you vote!

Jul.26, 2009 in LTL BOARDSEveryone should follow this link and read the full article about the condition of the entire trucking industry before they cast their vote. There are interesting quotes from several trucking companies. The article also states that 3000 trucking companies went bankrupt in 2008 and another 480 in the first quarter of 2009.I haven’t decided how I’m voting yet as I am still considering all the facts.

One more time for the freakin’ record

Jul.23, 2009 in LTL BOARDSIf you do not send your ballot in…IT WILL NOT BE COUNTED AS A YES VOTE!If 35,000 ballots are sent out….and only 15,000 send them back in…then the concessions will be determined by those who are eligible voters in those 15,000 that were mailed in!If you are laid off and are still in your 5 year re-call rights….your vote WILL BE counted…IF…you took a withdrawal card at the time of your layoff….if you did not and your membership was suspended becuase you did not pay your d

Employment Resources

July 23rd, 2009Game NewsLeave a commentGo to comments When searching for a job you can get frustrated and worn out by stumbling into all the quick money postings. The types of junk that lead you into paying money because they say you can make money, and you end up shorter on cash and worse off than when you started. Well there is a job search website that claims to prevent such postings.The owners of that site also run some chat rooms and forums, so they know a few things about automated postin

Administrators challenge L.A. Unified layoff vote

Alleging a conflict of interest, the union representing Los Angeles school administrators has demanded a reconsideration of last week’s vote approving $596.1 million in budget cuts, The Times has learned. The union, in an April 21 letter from its attorneys, claims that Board of Education member Richard Vladovic improperly voted on the budget plan. Vladovic cast the tie-breaking April 14 vote that approved massive cost-cutting measures by a 4-3 margin