We Have A Contract, Follow It SCU4 AKA FORBES, ALEKNAVICH

[stoner]

I just got off my my 23:00 quitting time at 02:00 the next day. I've been forced more times than my first year here and I have over 21 years.

So I hear Aleknavich, Forbes, Mattox and the rest are going to improve my quality of life by putting me on stand-by without compensation. I wonder every paycheck why I remain a member with these cretins making deals with the company while it's still same old same old. With Schantzen was there ever any communication, NO, with Thompson was there ever any communication, NO, and now with Aleknavich there's even less.

None of these doughnut eating @ssholes has any idea what we're going through because they don't work and haven't for years. We have a sellout safety comm. Haynick and Cogdell, let me ask you two, has there ever been an accident where a member wasn't guilty of being stupid, but maybe tired fatigued, misinformed, we are constantly being forced to work, we're tired. You both act like you're fighting for Dearing's job.

Locally our President Bennett wants us to participate in this pilot, Rocky we have a contract you dumb ******* why don't we try to live with that. Other Local officers and delegates are we ready to quit being politically correct and start pounding on tables. SCU4 is a company run Union, we have to take it back and your plan is not working.

The following list includes the names of those that show the worst traits of a Union member, and all should be contacted by true members for being doughnut eating f@tasses and company suckups and then told the truth. You don't live in the real world

Mattox, when I was in Miami you didn't work, you taught class, you can't even climb a pole.
McMahon, I heard you say some of the most ****ing comments ever during an SIAT investigation about your own members, you have a vacuum between your ears. Just plain stupid.
Forbes, you're a coward who's hidden behind that little Union of yours for years. I heard once they dropped, but they have definitely been drawn back up.
Haynick, Hoover not the dam, the vacuum you suck@ss
Thompson, sellout
Schantzen, sellout
Bennett, afraid
Martin, why did you become one of them
Aleknavich, it's been no change since you got there, grievances sent back settled without prejudice with no explanation, this should never happen. Work for us , you told me there would be changes, it isn't happening it's getting worse under your watch.
And all the Sims Clones, you know who you are.
You've sold us out and you're trying to do it again.

You all know who I am, I tried to contact you before Forbes and you didn't have the balls to talk to me.

Why do I pay dues, I guess I'm not the smartest man in the world, otherwise I'd just ride it out for free as we give it all away.

We have On Call, we don't need a pilot, follow the contract.

[just say no]

Like You Stoner And Union Hand,i Or Shall I Say We,have All Been Told The Same Old Crap Year After Year To Not Worry Things Will Get Better....well It's Only Getting Worse...every Contract We Give More And More To This Greedy Heartless Money Hungry Company,and Guys Like Forbes And Company Just Keep Smileing And Giveing Excuses....i Don't Know About You Guys But When Those **** Heads Allowed This Company To Even Suggest Let Alone Give Up Our Sick Time That To Me Has Signaled The End To Any Bargining Leverage We May Have Had.....i Think The Only Way To Get This Sorry Ass Negotiating Team To Listen To It's Members Is To Have A Mass Exodus From This Pathetic Union....don't Get Me Wrong I Believe In Unions But Sometimes Drastic Times Call For Drastic Measures....by The Way This Company Does What It Wants When It Wants Anyway...all You Have To Do Is Ask Your Self This....what Exactley Has This Unoin Done For Fpl,i Mean For You Lately.....sorry.

[stoner]

I was angry when I wrote this post I had been working every day for about two and half weeks and all but one of my regularly scheduled days there were forced hours involved. I'm sure there are some of our Union Representation who started with a true belief in union principles. Not all of them, McMahon and Haynick have worked towards their own agenda since the beginning and it is truly perplexing why they have any support from their locals at all, they're both company suck @sses.

Now as far as Forbes and Aleknavich are concerned I think I know what their problem is. They're suffering from a psychological disorder known as Stockholm syndrome. They sit at the table with the company every day, eat with them, see them after hours in the lounge I'm sure, so I'm sure they have this disorder. So for the membership to hope for any help from these two we will have to reverse the brainwashing that they are suffering from.

The best illustration of Stockholm syndrome was when Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and then became a member. She was eventually pardoned for the crimes she participated in because this psychological disorder is recognized by the medical community. Aleknavich and Forbes are suffering from a phnomenom of psychological identification with the more powerful abuser.

Knowing this we must remove them from power and try to have the brainwashing reversed. While this is taking place we must have representation that sits at the table and has the backbone to be more powerful than those across the table from them. We are a commodity not only at FPL but nation wide, they can't fill the positions in their own understaffed numbers.

Yet we allow psychologically disturbed people like Forbes, Aleknavich, Bennett, well just about all of the Executive Board for SCU4 make decisions that we the membership should be making.

Contact them and let them know you understand why they kiss @ss. But, then again they may be looking for a job in HR for the company, it's happened before

[just say no]

hey stoner,tell me it aint so,sounds like your softining up on these pukes???

[stoner]

The Executive board for SCU4 comes in 2 flavors, dirty and sheep, my local has a sheep.

[lineman641]

I believe we have come a long way in the last year, but we still have a long way to go. The last contract was voted in by the membership by 2%. We have to go by that. Currently we have 4 new system committee members and a business manager that has, in one year, made some pretty good progress. Things do not change overnight. I’m sure there are many members in all the locals of sc-u4 that want and are working to change the way we have to deal with the company. I have learned a lot about the way things are done and the process which we must follow in order to change things. To personally attack any individual is not the way to do this. To start pounding on desks and jumping up and down will not work. While I agree with some of the things that are mentioned, I do not agree with the way it is said. We are up against a company that has 100 times the man power and a thousand times the budget. It’s an up hill battle, but until we come together as a union and prove to them that we are to be taken seriously, we can never win. In the next year we have 2 locals with elections and elections for the system council and system committee. The other 9 locals will have elections before the next contract; this is the way to change things! Tell your local president and your delegates how you want them to vote. That’s there job and yours, follow up on it. When a president tells the delegates how to vote because that’s what they were told, then we all lose unless that is what the membership wants. …..one more thing……we can talk at the yard or the plant or the substation or on the phone or on the internet, but when we have 100 or 200 or 300 members in your local and only 10 or 15 show up, then those members can make policy changes, how your delegates and president vote, by-law change, just about anything. So if you can go to meetings, you can make a difference. ………….……..long hours, think about what your doing, be safe!

[Orgnizdlbr]

I believe we have come a long way in the last year, but we still have a long way to go. The last contract was voted in by the membership by 2%. We have to go by that. Currently we have 4 new system committee members and a business manager that has, in one year, made some pretty good progress. Things do not change overnight. I’m sure there are many members in all the locals of sc-u4 that want and are working to change the way we have to deal with the company. I have learned a lot about the way things are done and the process which we must follow in order to change things. To personally attack any individual is not the way to do this. To start pounding on desks and jumping up and down will not work. While I agree with some of the things that are mentioned, I do not agree with the way it is said. We are up against a company that has 100 times the man power and a thousand times the budget. It’s an up hill battle, but until we come together as a union and prove to them that we are to be taken seriously, we can never win. In the next year we have 2 locals with elections and elections for the system council and system committee. The other 9 locals will have elections before the next contract; this is the way to change things! Tell your local president and your delegates how you want them to vote. That’s there job and yours, follow up on it. When a president tells the delegates how to vote because that’s what they were told, then we all lose unless that is what the membership wants. …..one more thing……we can talk at the yard or the plant or the substation or on the phone or on the internet, but when we have 100 or 200 or 300 members in your local and only 10 or 15 show up, then those members can make policy changes, how your delegates and president vote, by-law change, just about anything. So if you can go to meetings, you can make a difference. ………….……..long hours, think about what your doing, be safe!


Wise words from lineman641, not only for the Fla brothers and sisters, wise words for all......

[billfoster67]

I went to my Central Labor Council Meeting for the first time, the only people there were retirees. There is this 72 year old woman Jo anne that is more union than any of us put together. We need to get together and vote-all unions.

I offered to put a library together on the Republican Tactics. Like Delays illegal jerrymandering TX. And OH was illegally jerrymandered for the Bush victory in 04 by Taft. What hurt Ohio was term limits. If the Dems aren't ready to rotate a candidate, especially census time. The Dem areas are paired with the yups. Too weaken the Democratic Party.

Believe it or not, after 8 years with this liar-spinster-piece of crap... Unions are getting weaker. The pull outs from the AFL-CIO doesn't help.

We need to get stronger. I would love to see lineman in congress. Instead of lawyer no military service types voting on the deployment of our children, not their pauge pauge private school children.

Congress needs reality. Like we have in this forum.

The first lineman that goes for a congressional race, I will work in his local just to vote for him.