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Author:  Kirkwood [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:31 am ]
Post subject:  Teamsters Local 700

https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/union-representing-snow-plow-garbage-truck-drivers-sets-strike-vote-for-sunday/
Quote:
Teamsters Local 700 has scheduled a “contract meeting and possible strike vote” for 10 a.m. Sunday to protest the union’s displeasure with contracts talks with the city to replace a 10-year agreement that expired six months ago.

Local 700 represents 2,032 city employees, the biggest chunk of the city’s unionized workforce outside police officers and firefighters.

Members of Teamsters Local 700 drive garbage trucks and snowplows. They clear runways and taxiways at O’Hare and Midway Airports.


Quote:
The decade-long contract that expired June 30 guaranteed city tradespeople the prevailing wage paid to their counterparts in private industry.

Employees in “non-prevailing wage rate classifications” received a compounded 26 percent pay raise over 10 years, plus supplemental “reporting pay, call-in pay and emergency call pay,” among other extras.

The contract also includes “break-in rates” that allow the city to pay “new career service and seasonal and pool motor truck drivers” at a rate equal to “80 percent of the prevailing wage for the first year of employment and 90 percent for the second year.”

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley has been widely criticized for signing off on the agreement to guarantee labor peace through the 2016 Summer Olympic Games that ultimately went to Rio de Janeiro.

Look, their work is valuable and instrumental for Chicago to function. But, dude, party is over. Go work in private industry if you think the proposed new contract terms are a screwjob.

Author:  312player [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Kirkwood=Union Buster

Author:  Douchebag [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Kirkwood = SCAB!

Author:  billypootons [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

i dont know the history of this negotiation, but if it's been 6 months and no deal has been reached, then a strike during snowfall will get the city to the table quick. maybe trump will force em back to work like reagan did to the air traffic controllers

Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Strike or not, MANY of the alderman's streets would still be cleaned during a snowstorm.

Author:  Brick [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Kirkwood wrote:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/union-representing-snow-plow-garbage-truck-drivers-sets-strike-vote-for-sunday/
Quote:
Teamsters Local 700 has scheduled a “contract meeting and possible strike vote” for 10 a.m. Sunday to protest the union’s displeasure with contracts talks with the city to replace a 10-year agreement that expired six months ago.

Local 700 represents 2,032 city employees, the biggest chunk of the city’s unionized workforce outside police officers and firefighters.

Members of Teamsters Local 700 drive garbage trucks and snowplows. They clear runways and taxiways at O’Hare and Midway Airports.


Quote:
The decade-long contract that expired June 30 guaranteed city tradespeople the prevailing wage paid to their counterparts in private industry.

Employees in “non-prevailing wage rate classifications” received a compounded 26 percent pay raise over 10 years, plus supplemental “reporting pay, call-in pay and emergency call pay,” among other extras.

The contract also includes “break-in rates” that allow the city to pay “new career service and seasonal and pool motor truck drivers” at a rate equal to “80 percent of the prevailing wage for the first year of employment and 90 percent for the second year.”

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley has been widely criticized for signing off on the agreement to guarantee labor peace through the 2016 Summer Olympic Games that ultimately went to Rio de Janeiro.

Look, their work is valuable and instrumental for Chicago to function. But, dude, party is over. Go work in private industry if you think the proposed new contract terms are a screwjob.

Sounds similar to the UAW that refused to accept the reality of the situation with the Big 3 until they had no choice.

Author:  Kirkwood [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

312player wrote:
Kirkwood=Union Buster

For these dopes? Absolutely.

These clowns definitely need a haircut when you have teachers scraping by.

Author:  SpiralStairs [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Kirkwood wrote:
312player wrote:
Kirkwood=Union Buster

For these dopes? Absolutely.

These clowns definitely need a haircut when you have teachers scraping by.


Kirkwood hates working families. Sad!

Author:  Brick [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Kirkwood wrote:
312player wrote:
Kirkwood=Union Buster

For these dopes? Absolutely.

These clowns definitely need a haircut when you have teachers scraping by.
But the owners will just pocket the money!

Author:  IMU [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

I'm sure the city could find ~2,500 currently unemployed folks that are qualified for the jobs and would work for less than the 2,032 make now. Sorry Teamsters Local 700. Cry more.

Author:  Seacrest [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Kirkwood wrote:
312player wrote:
Kirkwood=Union Buster

For these dopes? Absolutely.

These clowns definitely need a haircut when you have teachers scraping by.


I was with you once you said Teamsters.

The city takes orders from upper level Outfit guys. Who btw, have controlled this union for decades.

Author:  billypootons [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

IMU wrote:
I'm sure the city could find ~2,500 currently unemployed folks that are qualified for the jobs and would work for less than the 2,032 make now. Sorry Teamsters Local 700. Cry more.


while snowplowing is not brain surgery, it is definitely not easy and not something any schmuck can just take up and do without training/practice.

Author:  Big Chicagoan [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

billypootons wrote:
IMU wrote:
I'm sure the city could find ~2,500 currently unemployed folks that are qualified for the jobs and would work for less than the 2,032 make now. Sorry Teamsters Local 700. Cry more.


while snowplowing is not brain surgery, it is definitely not easy and not something any schmuck can just take up and do without training/practice.


There are tons of snow plow guys in chicagoland. Most construction guys, who drive trucks for a living, run snow plow businesses in the winter. Allows them to write off their trucks at tax deduction.

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Kirkwood wrote:
312player wrote:
Kirkwood=Union Buster

For these dopes? Absolutely.

These clowns definitely need a haircut when you have teachers scraping by.



Scraping by? A first year CPS teacher makes $50,000+.

Author:  billypootons [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Big Chicagoan wrote:
billypootons wrote:
IMU wrote:
I'm sure the city could find ~2,500 currently unemployed folks that are qualified for the jobs and would work for less than the 2,032 make now. Sorry Teamsters Local 700. Cry more.


while snowplowing is not brain surgery, it is definitely not easy and not something any schmuck can just take up and do without training/practice.


There are tons of snow plow guys in chicagoland. Most construction guys, who drive trucks for a living, run snow plow businesses in the winter. Allows them to write off their trucks at tax deduction.


do they plow city streets lined with parked cars with pedestrians and live traffic?

Author:  City of Fools [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

and gets their school loans paid off in some cases.

Author:  IMU [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

billypootons wrote:
IMU wrote:
I'm sure the city could find ~2,500 currently unemployed folks that are qualified for the jobs and would work for less than the 2,032 make now. Sorry Teamsters Local 700. Cry more.


while snowplowing is not brain surgery, it is definitely not easy and not something any schmuck can just take up and do without training/practice.


No one, qualified or not, can step into any job and do it 100% on day one. I didn't mean to imply that. But there are enough unemployed folks that have driven big trucks and worked manual jobsite jobs that would enable them to excel at snowplowing or garbage pickup fairly quickly. And they'd be more than happy to take 85% of whatever these Teamsters are currently making. I don't picture many of these guys on strike would be considered the "LeBron James" of their field and can't afford to me lost.

Author:  312player [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Kirkwood wrote:
312player wrote:
Kirkwood=Union Buster

For these dopes? Absolutely.

These clowns definitely need a haircut when you have teachers scraping by.



Scraping by? A first year CPS teacher makes $50,000+.




Not bad for 9 months.

Author:  Jaw Breaker [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Quote:
The decade-long contract that expired June 30 guaranteed city tradespeople the prevailing wage paid to their counterparts in private industry


Does that "prevailing wage" include pension benefits? The argument for public-worker pensions has always been that they work for LESS than private workers (which is dubious).

Author:  badrogue17 [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

IMU wrote:
billypootons wrote:
IMU wrote:
I'm sure the city could find ~2,500 currently unemployed folks that are qualified for the jobs and would work for less than the 2,032 make now. Sorry Teamsters Local 700. Cry more.


while snowplowing is not brain surgery, it is definitely not easy and not something any schmuck can just take up and do without training/practice.


No one, qualified or not, can step into any job and do it 100% on day one. I didn't mean to imply that.

Except you in a mlb front office .

Author:  IMU [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Even I would have to learn which Slack type software they use for communication.

But as it relates to covering my GM duties...we're all good there.

Author:  tommy [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

billypootons wrote:
IMU wrote:
I'm sure the city could find ~2,500 currently unemployed folks that are qualified for the jobs and would work for less than the 2,032 make now. Sorry Teamsters Local 700. Cry more.


while snowplowing is not brain surgery, it is definitely not easy and not something any schmuck can just take up and do without training/practice.

well said, sir.

Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

badrogue17 wrote:
IMU wrote:
billypootons wrote:
IMU wrote:
I'm sure the city could find ~2,500 currently unemployed folks that are qualified for the jobs and would work for less than the 2,032 make now. Sorry Teamsters Local 700. Cry more.


while snowplowing is not brain surgery, it is definitely not easy and not something any schmuck can just take up and do without training/practice.


No one, qualified or not, can step into any job and do it 100% on day one. I didn't mean to imply that.

Except you in a mlb front office .

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Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

312player wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Kirkwood wrote:
312player wrote:
Kirkwood=Union Buster

For these dopes? Absolutely.

These clowns definitely need a haircut when you have teachers scraping by.



Scraping by? A first year CPS teacher makes $50,000+.




Not bad for 9 months.



I wouldn't say that. Teaching is a full-time job. I'm not jumping on with union busting here. But to say that teachers are "scraping by" is more than an exaggeration. A $50,000 per year starting salary is quite good for all but the most specialized skilled jobs. If all the best paying jobs are City jobs, where does the money come from? I guess you tax the shit out of everybody and those who don't have City jobs flee to the Sun Belt. Doesn't seem like much of a long term strategy.

Author:  badrogue17 [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Sounds like we have a bunch of jealous mofos who should’ve made better career choices. Fuck all of you.

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Author:  tommy [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Jaw Breaker wrote:
Quote:
The decade-long contract that expired June 30 guaranteed city tradespeople the prevailing wage paid to their counterparts in private industry


Does that "prevailing wage" include pension benefits? The argument for public-worker pensions has always been that they work for LESS than private workers (which is dubious).

As much as I am for the workers, that's a good point. However, I do believe that their salary is higher than their counterparts at, say, Waste Management, are making. (At least, they were when my dad did this for a living.) This (public) pension thing . . . it's a problem.

Author:  tommy [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
312player wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Kirkwood wrote:
312player wrote:
Kirkwood=Union Buster

For these dopes? Absolutely.

These clowns definitely need a haircut when you have teachers scraping by.



Scraping by? A first year CPS teacher makes $50,000+.




Not bad for 9 months.



I wouldn't say that. Teaching is a full-time job. I'm not jumping on with union busting here. But to say that teachers are "scraping by" is more than an exaggeration. A $50,000 per year starting salary is quite good for all but the most specialized skilled jobs. If all the best paying jobs are City jobs, where does the money come from? I guess you tax the shit out of everybody and those who don't have City jobs flee to the Sun Belt. Doesn't seem like much of a long term strategy.

it's not a bad salary. can't go lower.

but yeah, we need a different strategy.

Author:  Kirkwood [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I wouldn't say that. Teaching is a full-time job. I'm not jumping on with union busting here. But to say that teachers are "scraping by" is more than an exaggeration. A $50,000 per year starting salary is quite good for all but the most specialized skilled jobs. If all the best paying jobs are City jobs, where does the money come from? I guess you tax the shit out of everybody and those who don't have City jobs flee to the Sun Belt. Doesn't seem like much of a long term strategy.

Fair enough, scraping by was a poor choice of words. Rather, since residents are going to continue to get assfucked with taxes then I'd rather the money pay for teachers and education rather than garbage truck and plow drivers.

Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

MANY of the the teachers aren't even the biggest problem. Its the "administrators" who worked for 2 at that position years to get a giant and lifelong pension.

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Teamsters Local 700

Kirkwood wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I wouldn't say that. Teaching is a full-time job. I'm not jumping on with union busting here. But to say that teachers are "scraping by" is more than an exaggeration. A $50,000 per year starting salary is quite good for all but the most specialized skilled jobs. If all the best paying jobs are City jobs, where does the money come from? I guess you tax the shit out of everybody and those who don't have City jobs flee to the Sun Belt. Doesn't seem like much of a long term strategy.

Fair enough, scraping by was a poor choice of words. Rather, since residents are going to continue to get assfucked with taxes then I'd rather the money pay for teachers and education rather than garbage truck and plow drivers.



I'm from a Union family. I'm very pro-Union. But there are inherent problems with public sector Unions. You see what happens when people can vote themselves a pay raise. You've got a City that's busted.

And I'm not blaming the Unions 100%. They asked for it, they got it. I can sympathize with a guy who worked 20 or 30 years and is expecting the pension he was promised. Maybe he would have done something else. But it's not reasonable to have guys working regular private sector jobs paying the freight for public workers to retire at age 50 with 80% of their highest salary.

Still, if the pensions had been funded the way they should have been, it wouldn't be a problem. We shouldn't have kept reelecting Daley as he gave away the City to his cronies and we wouldn't be having this discussion.

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