Showdown in St Louis: Best Buy vs. IBEW
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Showdown in St Louis: Best Buy vs. IBEW
The Electricians's Union (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) has been protesting in front of our local Best Buy for the past few weekends. They have huge signs up outside the parking lots and are handing out anti-BB flyers at traffic intersections.
They say that a new Best Buy being built in Wentzville, MO is using workers paid less than "the area standards wage and benefits rates earned by our members". Best Buy counters that the electricians are hired by the construction company and not by Best Buy: "Best Buy does not control and is not managing that construction".
So when I went to buy a DVD today, I had to go through two union workers handing out flyers. Weird.
They say that a new Best Buy being built in Wentzville, MO is using workers paid less than "the area standards wage and benefits rates earned by our members". Best Buy counters that the electricians are hired by the construction company and not by Best Buy: "Best Buy does not control and is not managing that construction".
So when I went to buy a DVD today, I had to go through two union workers handing out flyers. Weird.
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Who cares. Maybe they should get educations then instead of bitching that they can't take 10 months to finish a job which these 'lower paid' workers will do in 2-3 months. Lazy.
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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Who cares. Maybe they should get educations then instead of bitching that they can't take 10 months to finish a job which these 'lower paid' workers will do in 2-3 months. Lazy.
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Originally Posted by dablueguy
Wow, I guess I you could do their job since it doesn't take an education right? How do you know their education level? Maybe they are complaining that the contractor is using illegal aliens to do the work thereby undercutting Americans trying to earn a living? How do we know? Maybe some day they will get illegals to do your job, then who would be complaining?
It seems very silly to make a blanket statement like that without knowing all the facts...maybe you need to get "educated" on the situation before slandering these tradesmen..
It seems very silly to make a blanket statement like that without knowing all the facts...maybe you need to get "educated" on the situation before slandering these tradesmen..
And for the record, most illegals actually DO my job. I live in California, I am the minority. It would be great to go back to college, but registration is already filled due to all the illegals getting in for no other reason then they can't discriminate against them, but can against me. Oh well. This is better suited for the Political forum I suppose.
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Originally Posted by Tarantino
Hmmm...yeah, Best Buy doesn't hire those electricians. Maybe they should be picketing the construction site instead.
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Reminds me of a few years back when workers at a regional donut maker went on strike. They picketed in front of independently owned stores that sold the donuts because that was where people would see them. They had no beef at all with the stores.
To make a long story short, in the end everybody who went on strike was fired and the temporary employees hired to make the donuts were made permanent.
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Originally Posted by Heat
To make a long story short, in the end everybody who went on strike was fired and the temporary employees hired to make the donuts were made permanent.
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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Kinda like the grocery strikes here in California a few years back. Alot of scabs became permanent employees.
No pain, no gain.
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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Kinda like the grocery strikes here in California a few years back. Alot of scabs became permanent employees.
So no, not really like the donut one, where the old workers lost their jobs.