Garbage strike in Seattle; Looking for a 40K a year pay raise (minimum wage, Mexican)
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Newsflash..the CEO does not OWN the company, nor does he set his own salary.
Waste Management is a publicly traded company. Shareholders and the board of directors have a say.
Go buy some shares so you get a say in how the company operates.
FWIW, earning $2 mill a year does not make you "elite".
When EVER there is an issue regarding service to the taxpaying public, there should be competitive bids for the same project and if the old company loses to a different one, then so be it.
That is how some companies rise and fall in the private sector and I think these garbage companies should be made to compete so the TAXPAYERS get the best value for their tax dollar.
Leave this stuff to politicians and the taxpayers almost always gets stiffed or robbed.
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
Newsflash..the CEO does not OWN the company, nor does he set his own salary.Waste Management is a publicly traded company. Shareholders and the board of directors have a say.
When EVER there is an issue regarding service to the taxpaying public, there should be competitive bids for the same project and if the old company loses to a different one, then so be it.
That is how some companies rise and fall in the private sector and I think these garbage companies should be made to compete so the TAXPAYERS get the best value for their tax dollar.
Leave this stuff to politicians and the taxpayers almost always gets stiffed or robbed.
Well for those of us out in the country, we DO get to pick our garbage company as there are usually several to pick from. And we don't have contracts..we have month to month. They raise the price too much and bye-bye it's on to the next company.
Waste Mgmt used to be an operator in the county I lived in but they stopped servicing us individuals when they started getting all the city contracts. They know where the money is.
Newsflash..the CEO does not OWN the company, nor does he set his own salary.
Waste Management is a publicly traded company. Shareholders and the board of directors have a say.
Go buy some shares so you get a say in how the company operates.
FWIW, earning $2 mill a year does not make you "elite".
So the recycling group wants a new contract and goes on strike.....and the drivers, who JUST signed a new contract a couple of months ago, goes on strike with them as a sign of "solidarity". If they're so "solid", why aren't they negotiating their contracts together. And to top it all off, the union leaders for the drivers are trying to claim that by hiring replacement workers for the drivers, WM might be breaching the contract they signed with the drivers.
And then to top it all off, the communists that run Seattle's government tell Waste Management that they had better give the union everything it wants or else there'll be big fines. What else would one expect of the only city in the country to have a statue of Lenin in it, I guess.
Seems to me, if the drivers just signed the contract and are striking, they've breached the contract, and every last one of them should be fired and replaced. I mean hell, these people get paid 70 grand a year to sit in an air conditioned truck and push a button - the truck does all the heavy lifting these days. I'm sure there'll be a line of people out the door wanting those jobs.
More proof that unions don't work in the 21st century. Also a shining example of why public service workers should not be allowed to strike - allowing the trash to accumulate like this presents a public health hazard.
Unions try to preach solidarity to each other while one union gets more than the other. I never understood it. I'm in a public union and they try that crap all the time. We were told to stand in solidarity with the teacher's union while they complained that they had to pay more into their benefits and pensions, while we ALREADY had to do so. It's ALL about "useful idiots", that's all and most union members don't know that they are the idiots being used.
The USA is about the only country I know of where working class citizens buy into the demonization of unions. Middle class Americans trying to provide a good life for their families. Trying to preserve their standard of living.
This is how damaging and effective right wing rhetoric is. The followers don't even have the mental intellect to know what is good for their own family's well being.
They should be praising unions, and fighting to help unions. Otherwise your kids and grandkids, more and more will be working for peasant wages, long hours, while the elite in this country thrive.
Unions try to preach solidarity to each other while one union gets more than the other. I never understood it. I'm in a public union and they try that crap all the time. We were told to stand in solidarity with the teacher's union while they complained that they had to pay more into their benefits and pensions, while we ALREADY had to do so. It's ALL about "useful idiots", that's all and most union members don't know that they are the idiots being used.
You're sadly misinformed. The countries with the highest standard of living have the highest rates of union membership.
Give me somebody that bashes unions, and that is person will be clearly ignorant and dismissive of the massive fraud and corruption that goes on among corporations and government to hurt workers rights, pay and benefits.
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