A rusty relic of last century

Recently, one of our supporters had a visit from a pair of IAM933 union business representatives at his house. He sent a note about the meeting. If you think the union is working for you, wake up! Contrary to what many people think, unions are NOT just some benevolent charity—A union is a business and today's union bosses need new members to fund their failing businesses. It’s a rusty relic of last century. Below is an account from the meeting with Jimbo & Steve.

The other day, the union came knocking on my door. It was Jim Watson, & Steve Taylor.
When I answered the door, I had no idea who these 2 guys were. Even after they introduced themselves, it didn’t even ring a bell until they said they were from the union. So they asked me, what my beef was with the union… I told them that they were the reason I wasn’t making more money! I said that no matter how hard I worked, the company could not give me a raise. I told them that I wanted the right to negotiate my own pay raises. I said that it was simply incredible that an Assembler was making within $1 of what a Tester was making…. I said, the metrology test was 6 hours, the Product test exam was 4 hrs, and what was the assembler test… 1 hr??? I said my 19yr old son could do the assembler job, with no training, yet they made within $1 of what a tester makes. Unbelievable!
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Since the contract of 1994, the pay increases for Assembly Techs has outpaced Calibration Techs by over 20%. A proportional change is true for Testers too. The Company has allowed the union to rip us all off. The union did it, and their Constitution and Preamble say to do it. They are stealing from the higher skills, and they are accusing that the Company did it. You Cal Techs are stupid for supporting the union. The Testers quit long ago because they don’t support these Cronies. Skilled Workers need to push back and demand union reparations for the past 15 years of injustice! Look at the pay scales of 1994. If your pay increased at a lesser ratio than other groups since then, you are a victim of union gerrymandering. Pay ratios should be the same as they were back then. I suggest you quit the union and put massive pressure on them to pay you back. If these clowns are ripping you off, then threaten to quit because you are tired of letting the “voting-block” push you around. Don’t let them lie to you that the Company did it. That did not happen. It is in the Business Rep’s interest to manipulate the wages the way they have done over successive contracts. It enriches HIM. Now his pay exceeds $92,000 per year. Does yours?

More notes from that meeting.
Jim mentioned the “Website” (http://www.iam933.net/), saying that he would not argue his points on our Internet web blog. I told him that I was not involved in the website (he isn’t), but that I agreed with pretty much everything that was said on it…Somewhere during this conversation, he mentioned that he would sit down with anyone, over a cup of coffee and discuss all of the things I had talked about… even call him at home… at which point I looked thru the pamphlet he had given me for some phone numbers. There was one, the union hall number… he told me he could be reached at that number.

So Jimbo finally admits he can’t debate this in a public forum. He knows his position doesn’t hold water. He would prefer we go down to his union hall with a peanut gallery to heckle the opposition. It looks like he can’t handle the heat of an open debate. Afraid to let his word meet the scrutiny of public opinion. His offer of a chat & coffee sounds harmless, but the problem with that offer is its not going to get any results. He’ll just tell us “I’ll try to do whatever I can to address your complaints” without actually doing anything. He’s not obligated to do anything, even after he promises action. As a recently settled NLRB case shows, the union is not obligated to tell you the truth because they are internal matters to the union, and you have no right to oversee them. See Govt. document: http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Advice%20Memos/2009/20-CA-34166.pdf .
So who represents whom in this situation?

Jimbo, it’s hard to debate facts. This is the real reason you wont come on here and put your position to the people. If you can hide behind the lack of communication about our website, you stand to gain by continuing your lies and rhetoric. But the cat is out of the bag. Your members are increasingly reading our websites. We encourage your members to send in petitions even if they stay in the union. Lets put your union up to an old fashioned vote! Yes you stay, or No! You go! Union Members, join the fight for democracy in Raytheon. Send in a signed petition! Let the masses speak up. Tell others about this site. Tell others about the rebellion. Together we can do more! WORKERS ORGANIZE!

Unjustified Intimidation - The Scab List

Is the Salaried VS Labor fight a noble one? The Communist party focuses on class struggle. So does the IAM 933 local union. I borrowed some of these ideas from Wikipedia and tossed them in with my own because it sums up the union’s motives. That forces me to think of my steward and other unionists who claim to be so “conservative” in their thinking, but how they inspire militant socialist revolutionary reforms at Raytheon. These guys are so “pro bush, pro God, pro guns, etcetera” right-wingers who can’t stand the thought of Obama, Madonna, or Michael Moore. If you are in this union, you support socialist revolution. Do you understand this?

Over the past two years you may have read comments on this blog about the similarity between the union and communists, or socialists. What is the difference between socialism and communism? Socialism is a society ruled by workers, and Communism is a classless society. Socialism is merely a phase that society goes through on its way to Communism. This is a utopian concept that never works in reality. The USSR proved it.
For more info, you probably should read Wikipedia on Socialism and Communism. It’s not a perfect source, but it’s great for use at this level of discussion.

The history of all society until today is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted fight that always ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. The UAW ruined the auto industry in America. Our union through striking tried ruining the Company’s fortune through the mutual ruining of its own working class, leaving only the union itself standing unscathed. This method is in keeping with militant socialist ideals.

You the worker are merely a pawn of the machine that is trying to wield power over the Company by forcing it to do the union’s will. You are expendable to the union, and your sacrifices mean nothing to them, illustrated by the fact that they will disown you if you crossed the strike line, even on the last day. They will keep a list of you who crossed, even years from now, there will be names kept on a list for the inner circle of the union.
Now the “deserters list” has been found. And it was found on Company Computers! Actually a number of lists have been found. Maybe there are more. But be certain, the union has been keeping a list, and we have a copy of it. It’s been copied a few times and shared. Maybe it’s making the rounds among the workers by now. Are you on it?

What does this mean to you the worker? The union bombards us with messages that we can’t trust the company. “We’ll get shat upon as soon as the union is gone,” they say. But we all know this is the shattiest union in the world. They’ve proven they are not worthy, but we collectively keep them because of the fear we’ll be helpless without them if they go. We trusted them over the past and they’ve failed us miserably. Dr Phil would ask “Has it worked so far?” So why do we continue to invest in them, when we know the results will be failure?

Since we can’t trust the union, then the only thing we can look at is the logical next best thing. The workers who have left the union, and the labor ranks and who have joined the ranks of the salaried workers. These are the very people we will become like if we get rid of the union. Or we can look at the RMS Security folks, who some five years ago, removed the IAM933 from their ranks. Are they happy with the results five years later? Do they want the union back? I’ve asked several of them the same question. They’ve given me a resounding NO! If there are any RMS Security personnel out there who disagree with that comment, please respond. You can even write the webmaster at iam933.net of you would like a dialogue.

The bottom line is, we can’t trust the union. They’ve proven that. They claim we can’t trust the Company. Ask a salaried worker what they think. Pull them aside and ask them off the record. Don’t compromise them. Give them the liberty to express themselves so you can get an honest answer. Let the chips fall where they may. Ten times out of ten, you will get a response that doesn’t support the union. No one will force you to accept the truth. It’s just there waiting for you to accept it.

So what about the scab list? What good can come out of that? Are you on it? Did you rejoin the union after you crossed the line last time? What kind of member do they consider you to be? Maybe you should wonder if you are on that list. What will they do if nobody is looking? What would they do if this wasn’t a right to work state? Isn’t that unjustified intimidation?

Socialist Trolls and the things they say!

Socialist Trolls and the things they say! Enjoy! :-)

Funny thing, this document has been rolling around on my hard drive since December of last year. I wouldn't call our good buddy Jeff a troll, but the stewards in the factory love to repeat these slogans. Is it a coincidence or is it brainwashing by the union? Our union calls us freedom fighters Rats! Why would a Rambo pay $1000 a year to the union so his pay can be held down by $4000 per year? Who's the rat?

A union is only as good as the members that are in it.

The union is governed by its constitution. Members are practically barred from making changes to the existing document. Good people joining the union doesn’t change it, it changes the people. Unionists should check out their own constitution! Local 933 is one of the most pathetic unions and cannot be helped by vocal members who want change. Only disenfranchising the union will get the changes we need in the 21st century.

Without the union, you are at will employees of the company, with no contract, in a right to work (right to make a low wage) state.

I love this “At Will Employee” tearjerker. Arizona has some of the toughest right to work laws in the country when it concerns employee protection against tyrant employers. Your union doesn’t tell you that. Must I remind all of us that there are over ten thousand employees here at RMS without benefit of a union contract? I see their wages just suck royally, NOT! They don’t need a union, and YOU don’t need a union. The union NEEDS you to pay for its fat-cat lifestyle. Who’s paying whom? RONA was lost by local 933! Jimbo got almost $92,000 last year off your dues!

If companies treated their employees well and with respect, paid them a fair wage and benefits, then there would not be a union at their work place or an attempt to form one.

The reason some employees don’t get any respect is because they SUCK! Bad attitudes, lack of effort, milking jobs, and filing frivolous grievances are all are valid reasons why union types get looked down upon. Their reputations are built upon years of under achievement here.

If the unions disappear you people will be working 80 hour weeks at $10.00 an hour and have no benefits.

If unions disappear, union bosses will be working for $10.00 an hour and have no benefits, because they wont work for a living. Instead they milk your hard earned paycheck. Don’t fall for this stupidity check. Ask a non-degreed salary worker if they get ten bucks an hour with no bennies! Many of them left the union for their salaried jobs.

Management will work you to death and fire all who won't work 7 days a week.

Whoever said this is a complete idiot. They really have no respect for you or your intellect. This is a mantra coming from the religion-cult of the union. Worship is on Sundays at the union hall! Would you like grape or cherry Kool-Aid?

If you want to change the union, join it!

No thanks, we’ve already changed the union for the better, and we plan to change it for the best come October 31 of this year. By that time, we’ll be union free, and able to negotiate for ourselves what the union has taken from us for the past 57 years.

These are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to jargon and brainwashing techniques employed by the delusional leaders of the union. A special thanks to all the other web sites out there that support removing the union from RMS. http://www.iam933.net/ http://oust933.googlepages.com/home http://iamnot933.blogspot.com/ and any other ones I have failed to mention.

Be careful - don't fall!

Welcome back fans & foes! Here’s a lighter message for the masses. The union placed you way up high to get your dues support, and you are basking in their hypocritical sunlight. If you took the bribe then you are a fool with your money and trust. Be careful, don’t fall! I hope to keep the comments coming in. It looks like our pen-pal Jeff (GOIAM) has left us. What a shame. He was the only intelligent one who had balls enough to come defend the union’s position. And he’s not even from this union. He’s still wrong, he's still socialist, but at least he has some manhood. Our local union lacks courage. This is one of the reasons why we don’t want them. Not only are they stupid, they have no machismo about them. They smell like hairspray and talcum powder. None of their officers or representatives came on here to publicly defend the IAM933 way of thinking. They are afraid to get into an argument with a ghost! And they wear those rat buttons as if they were some sort of protective amulet or something. What a bunch of weaklings!

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This June we are getting into full swing of the Petition Season. We wish to decertify this bumbling union before contract negotiations take place. To decertify the union, we must turn in our petitions to the NLRB between 90 and 60 days before the present contract expires. That is the Law. The NLRB needs petitions two months early to let them set up an election before contract negotiations. If the election decertifies the union, they will cancel negotiations, period. The company will then convert into having all of us under salary guidelines. If you are sick of this group of fools determining your pay, send in your signature now. I wish to thank each and every one who has gone to the trouble to send theirs in early. It’s working! Encourage your friends to send theirs in too.

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I’ve been complaining for a while about how this socialist organization lives on the backs of the working class. Now I’m going to show you again. Here are highlights from the union’s annual LM-2 Form for 2008. It’s one of the same documents posted on http://www.iam933.net/finance.html except it’s the latest one! Look at where the money goes over at the union! It looks like Lori is the only one that earns her pay. Jimbo and Steve get excessive pay for what they do. And look at all those thousands of dollars going to the anointed seven!

John Catalano Cond/Sent $2,722

Elizabeth Hunter Trustee $2,885

Meicheile Juve Rec. Secy $2,560

Louis Martinez EBoard $2,980

Ramon Rodriguez Sec-Treas $1,860

Victor Duarte EBoard $1,470

Darron Stafford EBoard $2,824

Lori Jenness Office Staff $47,351

Steven Taylor BR $74,148

James Watson DBR $91,966
These guys making thousands of extra per year aren’t feeling the pain like you did in 06. At this rate, they will make their whole strike loss back by this year! Are you willing to fill their wallets with your money? Fight Back! Quit and Sign the Petition Now!

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Remember the vote back in Nov 2006 and Jan 2007?For union members these numbers look pretty familiar. For the rest of us, this sums up why union moral is low.

Contract Vote on 5 November 2006:

1140 – reject 106 – accept -- 1246 – votes total

1018 – strike 111 – opposed -- 1129 – votes total

Capitulation Vote on 14 January 2007:

766 – Yes, 186 – No, 200 – members crossed – 147 – unknown?

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The 2008 LM-2 shows union membership. This year they reported a two percent increase. This is total membership within all companies they represent.

Total Members/Fee Payers 1,688

Regular Members 1,188

Retired, Life, & Exempt Members 480

Unemployed Members 20

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With the AIKIMA Corp on the Air Base joining the ranks of the union, it looks like they succeeded in conquering that organization, and the employees within it. It doesn’t show how their levels within RMS have changed. But they have tricked some of their former members into rejoining their group. Poor fools, I guess they’ll never learn. They need to come down off the ladder.

Run Run Run! Jump to union prosperity! Hurry!

The union has no balls! They just have slogans. Scare tactics to keep the money pouring in. Now there is a rebellion going on and it’s about time. If only they could send us rebels to the banish hole! In the perfect socialist dream nobody would challenge their lame ideas.
Here is a collection of union slogans to review. IAM933 teaches their people to repeat these slogans to get people to fork over their money like the rest. If you join this union, you will fall into their hole. The proof is in the bottom dollar. See illustration.

Recent IAM slogans fall into one of six basic categories. Lets examine them.

1. “At will employment”: read here http://www.iam933.net/art.pdf “At will” sounds scary to the ill informed. Until you read Arizona Law.
2. The company won’t negotiate with you, nor give raises. Ask ten thousand salaried RMS workers if that’s true. They’ll laugh in your face!
3. Get rid of IAM and the Company will take away everything! Salaried workers have not lost a thing, so the Company has a record of proving the union wrong. Oh yea, it’s illegal in Arizona to “take away wages” without a demotion.
4. The Company will replace you with others for less! Aerospace workers are in limited supply. They can’t replace us, especially for less pay!
5. Everyone should make the same wage. No they should not! People should make what their skill entitles them to, based upon the need within the hiring market. Stalin sold the idea of equal pay. Look how well that worked. UAW Ruined US Autos. Will IAM ruin the Aerospace industry?
6. You need us to protect you. You need that like a hole in the head. The union is a greedy business, they need your money and free servitude to function. Why else would they let the sluggards remain in the membership?

“Jeff” has hung around to challenge us. He disagrees with our position against his union. He repeats these same slogans because he is a salesman for the union. Either he knows his words are propaganda for socialism and condones it, or he is a useful “tool” of the union by spouting off without fully understanding what they mean. Either way, the evidence is clear. This union is a money sucking leach. Below are some of Jeff’s words. Read them & follow the numbers to match the slogans:

-If you feel the salaried ranks are such a good spot to be, then get a salaried job. But wait, that would lead to employment at-will. So be careful. 1 , 6
-"Right to work for less" state. 1
-The company will not give out raises or anything if they do not have to per a collective bargaining agreement. 2
-Once again, get rid of the IAM and the company will walk all over you. Taking away money and benefits. 3, 6
-Lose the IAM and you WILL lose money and benefits. 3, 6
-The company will seek out people that will be willing to do your job for LOTS less. 4
-I foresee the company taking away wages, benefits and working conditions. 3
-The only way the workers have been able to keep wages, benefits and such is by standing together as a united front. 2, 6
-You think you are such the great worker that the company will fall apart without you. That they can not find someone out there to do what you do for less money, no 401k or match, no pension and as few other benefits as possible. 4, 6
-And then they will try to make you all the same classification so they can pay you LOTS less. Grunt 1 and Grunt 2…4, 6
-Personally I have no problem with what others make where I work. The company WILL go out and find those people willing to work for less. It will happen. 4
-And if I needed the job, I would be one of those people to move in and take yours for less wages. 4
-I would prefer to get a GWI for the entire bargaining unit with no classification raises that a smaller GWI with classification raises for a few. 5
-The company loves when their workers are not united. 6
-They know that with a divided work force there are a ton of things they can do and get away with; from changing policies and directives to offering little in the way of wages and benefits during negotiations. 6
-Without a Union these things would have been done without most people even knowing about it until it was too late. 6

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The union is a farce. When you hear these lines, you know they came from the Wipisinger school of socialism. They ask you to join so you can make change, but their constitution prohibits you from making good changes to the union. Once you join, you are boxed in by their rules. Don't believe it? Read their Constitution . The only good answer is to remove them and start fresh.

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There is still time to get rid of IAM933. But if we get into Negotiation Season, then the window of opportunity will have past to Oust the union until 2012. If you want to sign the petition, but have not felt the impulse to do so yet, get motivated. Visit http://www.iam933.net/pet.html to get a copy of the petition and mail it in today!

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Oust933 !

Recycle the Union

Have you heard the union is going to strike again? Oh but now they fear it in a down economy. Let them strike. We'll party inside like last time! Luncheons and breakfast fiestas while our union freezes out by the blue barrels, waiting for hope; a breakthrough that never comes.
Brothers, don't listen to that call for strike! The company will take your jobs as fast as the law will permit. Hundreds are waiting in line for Raytheon Jobs. Instead, throw this union to the trash! Recycle the union, start fresh.

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We needed a union that would attract smart people,instead of slugs. Everyone knows the union carries the dead weight of the Company. Even the top dogs in the union admit it. What did they do to fix it, after years of complaints? ? So lets fix them! They're too stupid to run a union. And these dunces have been in charge for 57 years!

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Stop paying these idiots ruin your lives.

Start paying attention to the lies they tell.

What other union has a membership drive?

Any one is better than this union from hell!

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visit http://www.iam933.net/pet.html to get your copy of the petition.

Rat Party at 369 W Ajo Way

Have you seen the "No union buster rat" buttons lately? It shows how your union offers respect for those with different ideas from your rodents at Ajo Way Ed. Didn't you demand respect during the strike? Didn't IAM933 whine endlessly about our respectful t-shirts that only say "I am not 933 - I can speak for myself"?" You guys began to wear Ghostbuster tee shirts and that was a hit! (we laughed at that one) Now you pull out rat-buttons. Well, here's to your respect Ed. It takes some to get some. So I raise you one. See the picture, and take a good look Ed. This is how the rest of us in labor see your dirty little club. Also, ten thousand others who can't speak see your filthy group the same way. Don't you wonder why salaried folks look down their nose at you? It's the hypocrisy factor Ed. The more you loosers push us freedom fighters, the worse you look to red-blooded American Employees at RMS.

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So it looks like you've got a trend Ed. You taught your members to ignor non members for years, not even to acknowledge them. (Respect training #1) Then your heavy-weights go wishing the ill-will of non members after they are assaulted by the East Side Slasher! Now you've officially sanctioned disrespect with your little union rat-buttons. Don't go whining about disrespect again Ed. You have no ground to stand on. We're keeping record, and we'll show everyone next time you cry to HR. I hope some creative individual out there makes a t-shirt of this picture and wears it on Thursday. It will serve you right.

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To the rest of RMS employees out there: We are taking petitions now. Go to the main website at http://www.iam933.net/ and follow instructions to decertify this bunch of ratatouilles. Do it now. Don't wait another day to send in your signature. Lets all give them the boot. Let's put Jimbo and Steve back on the floor working like the rest of us (have you seen their pay?). And let's give Ed something to think about. A concience.