IAMAW 933 is 1/1024th Union!

 

This Union is 1/1024^th Union!

They are about nothing. Either they are totally sucking up to the Company and are head in the sand ashamed of it, or they are in total disarray and couldn’t organize another strike if their lives depended on it.

Here we are, Twelve years after the strike of 2006. This morning the Local 933 is out voting on if they will accept the contract of 2018 from Raytheon here in Tucson. No rallying. No flyers looking for support. No, just a deafening silence that makes members unsure if they even have a pulse.

If you go to the Union Website, they have been pretty mum over the past month about the negotiations. Even hard core members have been left guessing what their negotiation team is up to. They have done little. They had one tiny rally out front of the company, on Nogalez Road.  And what, a token gathering at the hotel? As I now write, the Union hasn’t even seen fit to publish their account of the process for the last day. No “Up or Down” recommendations were handed out. They offer nothing but vague assertions that they are fighting for you, the worker.

Vote! Vote little children. We know you will vote to approve the contract. Regardless of your side not getting the pension you begged for, or the medical bennies are all but gone. Gone are the days of fighting for “No Passthrough Language!”  Don’t feel bad, you did get your “Justice Delayed” T-Shirt, no?



A Rusty Old Wheel

Despite the Company's worthy offer to the workers at Raytheon, the leaders at IAMAW lodge 933 attempted to convince their members this contract offer was a bad deal, and that they should consider rejecting the offer. THAT, after negating to communicate truthfully how they were negotiating with the company for the past two months. The few remaining members you do have don't trust you for honest representation Mr. Martinez. Thats why they voted to ratify this contract over your objections. The rest of us see you for what you all on Ajo way are; a rusty old wheel that has seen better days.

Happy Labor Day! It's all about the Money!

It’s been a pretty good summer for the IAMAW. $15.00 an hour wage protests are popping up all over the country and the president is handing out concessions to labor all over the United States in the form of overhauled overtime requirements, modification of infractions policy for companies that outsource work to contractors, and expanded sick leave rights. 

Fast forward to Raytheon Contract Negotiations, scheduled to kick off this fall. For starters, it looks like the local lodge is falling behind! Most unionized workers are working for 3 dollars an hour less than they should be, a result of the failed contract of 2003. Your union never did go get that lost pay raise back for you. This will be the fourth contract since then and it doesn’t look like they will fix it this contract neither. As a matter of fact, it doesn’t seem like your union is doing much of anything. They plan to fold their hand with the company again, just like last time. But could you cough up 3 hours a month?

Has your steward come around to you asking you to join? Ask him when he plans to get you that pay raise they “redistributed” 12 years ago. Ask for back pay from the union. They owe you 10% of your wages cumulatively since 2006. Ask him why hamburger flippers are worth $15 an hour, but your wages stagnated? Why do our custodians make less than fifteen dollars an hour? 

Why do we keep believing in this good for nothing union? They’re all about the money. Your money.

Mayday! May I have another?

We celebrate another Mayday in the Old Pueblo, and our mothers at the union are cooking up their old tricks to steal your money again this fall. This time they plan to dismantle the Machinist's trade, and redistribute the money around the lower pay grades at the expense of the other classes. Are you ready to see the union tell you "The Company" wants to do away with certain trades within the machinists, and they want to combine the skills. Of Course, they want to pay the low skill schlubs the high dollar that the metrology and Tool and Die Makers get. You know what that means for the rest of us? NO Pay Raise, again, like 2003! Oh, maybe there will be, but it will be small, because they are going to take money that you WOULD HAVE gotten in a GWI, and redistribute it to them. How's THOSE Socialist apples for ya? If you complained about the 2003 contract when you got no raise, then stand up and fight these peckerwoods about this one, because BOHICA! Happy Mayday! Oh, and Happy Mother's Day Too!

No IAM! You voted for CHANGE, and Got It!

 

https://twitter.com/iam933org

When the Union voted for Change in 2014, they really meant it! Wow, they are on a down hill run real fast. They've lost their web site, and some URL hawker has purchased it and loaded it in the Virgin Islands! It's going to cost Mr Martinez to buy it back. Lucky for him, the value is real LOW!

 

www.iam933.org 

How much of a chance does this group of clowns have at getting you a good contract this fall? I hope you like Obamacare! Don't even dream of them getting a raise. Word has it that this union is going to reduce the machinist's trades and give a fat raise to the illiterate at the expense of the rest of the work force...again!  Didn't you guys learn in the contract of 2003? The union is looking to bargain again, and what did you get out of the deal? Oh yea, pass through language! Bend Over, Here it Comes Again!

Pandoras Little Box

 

Did the NLRB Just Make it easier to De-Unionize Raytheon? 

A decision this week by the National Labor Relations Board could make it much easier for groups trying to eliminate unions to get a foothold in large defense manufactures like Raytheon, which have thwarted de-organization efforts by the Ousties group at WWW.IAM933.NET for years.

Since the employer has the burden of showing that a bargaining unit is too small and that a larger group already shares the “community of interests” labor laws require, it removes much of the discretion the NLRB had to reject small bargaining units from breaking off from the larger union and makes it harder for employers to argue against de-unionizing subgroups of the work force.

The decision represents the lack of focus of Democratic appointees who took charge at the board after the President’s recess appointments were rejected. The chairman Mark Gaston Pierce wrote his opinion and he was joined by Nancy Schiffer, a former AFL-CIO assistant general counsel, and Kent Y. Hirozawa. They intended on helping the effort to unionize labor groups within larger companies like Wal-Mart one classification at a time, but failed to recognize this legal loophole permits this to work both ways.

Testers and Metrology-Calibration Technicians at Raytheon have been stifled from removing themselves from representation by the IAMAW Local Lodge No. 933 in the past. This new development may lead to a new opportunity to liberate ourselves from past strangleholds.

Pay me your dues and feel the respect

Come to me my little children, come and recruit more members to pay me for the deeds I do for you. You poor unfortunates deserve better, and only I can deliver the prosperity you deserve. Join me, and pay me your dues, and I will make all of your problems go away. For membership is down. Participation is waning. Leadership is rebelling. My webmaster is delinquent in upkeep of his page. My DBR is in limbo, but you my little polyps can pay me your dues and feel the respect. Come join a committee, be a trustee, become embroiled in the politics of entitlement and envy. The old guard has retired, now the stoic militant remnants whisper the doom of the lodge, the fate of our future is lost to the petitioners who exposed our tricks; to steal wages from the workers; to buy votes of the masses. We stole wages from many to benefit a few, the few who we knew would pay us their due.