Cambridge, Yes I would fight for the IUE members! Redvert is right, I formed bonds with hundreds of IUE members when I worked on "the floor" as a production supervisor and process engineers. Many of the older ladies who worked for me took me under their wing and treated me as a son or grandson. I hunt, fish, and target shoot with many of the hourly that I made friends with. I have litterally trusted them with my life on their boats on lake Erie to hunting and shooting with them. You will find this hard to beleive, but there was not much anamosity between the rank and file hourly and the rank and file salaried. We all worked hard together and played hard together and morned the loss of our jobs to Mexico and China.
Shakesspeare, we were salaried workers which is white collar and not blue collar! We didn't get hired by knowing someone, we got hired by knowing something. When I was hired you had to have a 3.5 gpa and an Engineering Degree. We did not bargain for our wages since we were always discouraged from joining a union. Yes we enjoyed good pay and benefits, but that is what the company offered us in return for not joining a union. Salaried did not have a 30 and out, we could only retire with 30 years if the company allowed us to go, which they did the last few years with the promise that they would pay us the pension they owed us. They have now lied and backed out of that deal. We are just trying to show what inpact this pension reduction will have on an already depressed Mahoning and Shenango Valley from the trickle down effect of not having any disposable income to spend on goods and services. We are just trying to get the same level up from GM that has been offered to the UAW and IUE workers.And thank God for our IUE brother and sisters because they are supporting us on this!
The Delphi Ripple Effect
Run Jimbo Run!
He's just the son of a truckdriver!
September 30, 2009 at 7:45 a.m. permalink suggest removal
The Delphi Ripple Effect
Cambridge,
Yes I would fight for the IUE members! Redvert is right, I formed bonds with hundreds of IUE members when I worked on "the floor" as a production supervisor and process engineers. Many of the older ladies who worked for me took me under their wing and treated me as a son or grandson. I hunt, fish, and target shoot with many of the hourly that I made friends with. I have litterally trusted them with my life on their boats on lake Erie to hunting and shooting with them. You will find this hard to beleive, but there was not much anamosity between the rank and file hourly and the rank and file salaried. We all worked hard together and played hard together and morned the loss of our jobs to Mexico and China.
September 30, 2009 at 7:39 a.m. permalink suggest removal
The Delphi Ripple Effect
Shakesspeare, we were salaried workers which is white collar and not blue collar! We didn't get hired by knowing someone, we got hired by knowing something. When I was hired you had to have a 3.5 gpa and an Engineering Degree. We did not bargain for our wages since we were always discouraged from joining a union. Yes we enjoyed good pay and benefits, but that is what the company offered us in return for not joining a union. Salaried did not have a 30 and out, we could only retire with 30 years if the company allowed us to go, which they did the last few years with the promise that they would pay us the pension they owed us. They have now lied and backed out of that deal. We are just trying to show what inpact this pension reduction will have on an already depressed Mahoning and Shenango Valley from the trickle down effect of not having any disposable income to spend on goods and services. We are just trying to get the same level up from GM that has been offered to the UAW and IUE workers.And thank God for our IUE brother and sisters because they are supporting us on this!
September 29, 2009 at 4:20 p.m. permalink suggest removal