Thursday, October 9, 2008

Strike Update 10/09


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29 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey union members,

This financial fiasco is your best weapon in negotiations to keep the pension. I sure hope you do get to keep it. Its a shame we lost ours (we don't have a union). There's no way that management can look you in the face and say all you need is a 401k when their's are down 25% and probably will be for years (and it would take a 50% upswing to just get back to even stevens).
Keep it up. No, they aren't moving products without you - although they are pulling some work out of there - And yes the company is loosing more than you guys. You guys can get part time jobs, the company can't!
We are praying for you-

Dallas site Engineer

Anonymous said...

I have received an email lately that has a brand new retirement plan that we might use in our negotiations. You buy $1000 worth of beer and drink it, recycle the cans and get back $241 for your investment. A much better return than the 401K plans right now.

It's called the 401Keg plan.

Anonymous said...

Hey, whats up? Our managment has cut out overtime to zero. He says it is becuse the lack of new orders, counterd by the huge surplus of Scrap aluminum coming from your Vought Nashville plant!Come on guys, get this settled, I an tired of fishing and Hunting on weekends!

Alcoa Worker

flapwing said...

ANON SAYS!!!

"Hey, whats up? Our managment has cut out overtime to zero. He says it is becuse the lack of new orders, counterd by the huge surplus of Scrap aluminum coming from your Vought Nashville plant!Come on guys, get this settled, I an tired of fishing and Hunting on weekends!"

heh, heh, heh!!!

Thats a good one and soo true!!!!!


Stand strong brothers & sisters!!

Anonymous said...

Well boyz and girls we just need to keep on with our pride and detication. I'm like most people try'n to get a little somthin goin as far as a part time job goes. It's tuf but not impossible. I went in to a temp service yesturday to fill out the app. The women behind the desk looked at my resume and said "oh you work at vought. Didn't I see something on the news about them". I told her yes the union is on strike. "oh yes" she said, and then she tongue lashed me a bit saying "that's the reason why the economy is the way it is;because of unions." It just goes to show you how much she doesn't know about the subject. I can say more about what happend but I might get kicked off the blog. Anyway I stand with all my union brothers and sisters. Lets stay united and strong. I said it before and I'm say'n it again. I just want my equal share. no more no less. 735 IS STRONG.

Crow-P5 said...

ROFL!

Good one!

TS1 said...

Check out this statement made by Doty in the Nashville Business Journal on 5/9/08:

"You need to nurture and grow your people, not just exploit them," Doty says

Well Mr. Doty, we are NOT going to be exploited any longer!!!

In the same issue Dan Tharp says:
"This type of investment provides a huge boost in morale for employees," Tharp says. "They see that we are willing to invest in their future."

What are you investing in Mr. Tharp? Surely not our future with that contract you gave us!!

Just Curious said...

Being Just Curious would like to know as to what work is being pulled from the Nashville plant as we know that Vought has already made a attempt at moving some work and failed with a huge cost also

Anonymous said...

To Local 735 Remember :WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH ,THE TOUGH GETS TOUGHER ! This local is much stonger and smarter than we thought , Stick together and you will be rewarded with a better contract ! Your friends in Nashviile

Ladybug said...

hey bigpirdy, you must have gone to Ranstad. Brothers and sisters remember that place when strike is over. The treatment my son got was to bad for the blog also.

Anonymous said...

All eyes are on Vought!

It's their move.

Stand Strong!!!

bigb said...

Please list the scabs that have got out of the union and have crossed the line.

Web Steward said...

bigb,

For legal reasons we will NOT be listing the names of the scabs that cross the line. We also will not allow posts that name them.

Anonymous said...

Well times are getting hard out here and the economy is headed into a recession. This is not good news for us or the company. Everyone, eva1uate who is winning and who is losing in this strike ! I want to stick with it, but the holidays are fast approaching, and pockets are going to be empty. Let's be strong as long as we can. Let's get a mediator and get back to talking, soon.

Anonymous said...

There are jobs out there guys. They might not be the greatest but at least its money. I found one within a week of us walking out and we're needing about 2 more ppl where Im at. Its the Mapco in Kingston Springs. I think it would be a help if other ppl find jobs available out there post them here to help our Brothers and Sisters out.

Anonymous said...

look at the aircraft companys they said they would be out til after the new year and one is back already and the other one is back at the table and the one back at the table was playen hard ball just hang in there it will all be goood

Anonymous said...

I hear Vought may be bringing in mechanics from the Hawthorne site

Just Curious said...

In a blog from daleng A Dallas site Engineer said although they are pulling some work out of there!

Being Just Curious would like to know as to what work is being pulled from the Nashville plant as we know that Vought has already made a attempt at moving some work and failed with a huge cost also

Anonymous said...

Do something, we need our jobs BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

"Just Curious" I think someone was referring to moving work out the door as in "finished product" being shipped.

That would either be product that was actually finished before the strike, product almost finshed before the strike with some added flaws since, or smoke and mirror product being moved around...

Anonymous said...

We have a certain young lady (SCAB)that works in the da flaps,she has recently crossed our picket line...
She is so proud of herself that she has took a picture inside the plant and sent it in a picture message to one of her union sisters that she has betrayed,and the text read Vought is #1!!!
People we have got to stand strong,and stick together if we want a good contract! Don't be a scab!!!
proud union member

Anonymous said...

keep praying and walking...hold your signs high

Anonymous said...

yep anon and what a skanky scab she is..or...should i say a scabby skank! whatever works!

Anonymous said...

I was doing some math: lets see $750 a week times 3 (since the strike started)= $2250.00 to sell your soul for that amount of money is worse than being a hooker at least they would kiss ya. I hope the scabs at our plant understand that they have no alliance with no one. Union don't want them and the company see's how easy they will sell themselves.Just food for thought; I'm with you YANKEE

Anonymous said...

Isn't she the one that used a flap for a work bench and drilled holes through the parts and into the flap itself? And then she asked the union to represent her to keep her out of trouble. Boy Vought you've got a real winner there, Congradulations!!! Lmao

Anonymous said...

WHILE THE machinists dig in, Boeing's other main union, the 18,000-member Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), has a contract that expires December 1. As they have attempted to do with the IAM, Boeing is trying to take away pensions from new hires and force them into a 401(k) plan.

Other issues include attempts to reverse Boeing's shift of around $8 million in health care costs onto the union earlier this year. SPEEA, like the IAM, also seeks to limit outsourcing. Also, SPEEA wants a higher cost-of-living adjustment and raises of 10 percent in each year of the proposed three-year contract.

Meanwhile, another aerospace industry struggle could have an impact on the Boeing strike. On September 28, 1,000 production and maintenance workers, members of the IAM Local 735, struck Vought Aircraft's Nashville plant. The biggest issues are changes to the medical plan, switching any worker with fewer than 16 years of experience from a pension to a 401(k) and freezing the company's contributions to the pension fund.

These workers build wing and tail assemblies for some Airbus jetliners, C-130 military cargo planes and Gulfstream business jets. According to the Nashville Business Journal, Vought is one of the world's largest independent suppliers of aerostructures.

Vought, which has over $1 billion in sales annually and is owned by the Carlyle Group, is also one of Boeing's biggest suppliers. At its other plants around the U.S., it manufactures structures and parts for the 747, 767, 777 and 787.

In fact, according to Vought's Web site, in June 2006, it opened a new 342,000 square-foot manufacturing plant adjacent to the Charleston International Airport in Charleston, S.C., to build the "aft fuselage sections 47 and 48" for the new Dreamliner 787.

A successful outcome in both the Boeing and the Nashville IAM's strike could give confidence to workers in Charleston and elsewhere by setting a high standard for workers in the industry.

Anonymous said...

It seems awful funny to me that the ex employees of Vought want people to respect them and thier choice but dont want to give other people the same right to choose for themselves without being called names or ridiculed . How childish,its like a gang your either with us or against us how immature.

Anonymous said...

Well, it doesn't really matter what they have moved out of the plant. I thought you guys would know more than me, becuase you'd have seen the trucks hauling the tools out. They haven't moved anything out that they haven't been planning on moving for quite some time. I probably shouldn't say exactly what, but I'm sure you guys can find out if you really want. Probably no Airbus stuff, so it's not huge amounts, just some little things.

Anonymous said...

how the hell r we x employees???you think vought just need the scabs oh please you guys r just part timers and the ones that crossed the picket lines you will probally be out the door so think again before you say ex employees we r on strike ok so dont get it twisted!!!!!!