Rumors.... and just as a union campaign is going on.

[ejpoeta]

OK. So I had posted about my hubby's work in it's third attempt at unionizing. This time it's the teamsters. Well, yesterday some rumors started going around about pay cuts coming. OF course this would be AFTER the vote for the union. This is how it always happens. I thought it was odd that the employer would put that out there before a vote. Isn't this news going to help the unionizing effort?

Now before you go saying this is just a rumor. Can't believe rumors. Think about this. When the hubby was new, had been there about a year or so and was a level one there were a number of levels and they came with different pay scales. Well, hubby was a level 1 as was my brother. They made all the higher levels a level 2 and cut their pay while taking level 1 guys and increasing their pay and making them level 2 also. So there is a precedent for this. And when it happened I told the hubby not to be too thrilled. This could happen to him. And it looks like I was right.

the hubby surmises this was leaked out by someone who wants the union. Someone who was one of the rest of them and wants to make sure they know what is coming. It is such that my BROTHER who is a fire breathing anti government anti union guy is now wishing he hadn't thrown out his card he got in the mail. That says a lot. I told my hubby to tell the bro to ask for another one, if he is truly serious.

I hope this is enough to push it through. I mean, I am not sure about the number of cards that the teamsters have received yet. Trying to figure out what kind of a cut we were talking about, he looked at the new guy who is making $13/hr... I suggested they might meet in the middle somewhere. Hubby makes $17/hr. So if they cut it to $15 and increased the new guy to that it doesn't sound too bad huh. $2/hr isn't bad. It cuts us to $31k from our current $40k.

On a positive note... if you can call it that... we'd qualify for medicaid again. And I guess we'd qualify for food stamps now. Uggh.