sateck01 said:
admiral nimitz (u-boat commander)
have a great july 4 holiday.
now a question to you and the CWA.
where does your work come from? directv thru the CSG system, correct?!
your contract is with / will be with your company and the employees, correct??!!
so how if you company needs more money to survive after paying your union rates, and directv is paying a set max across the nation , do they get the money??
the company is in business to make a profit, your job means nothing other than output. the company has people who invested their money and want a return on that, if they hadn't done it you would not have a job.
and the idiot that was talking smack on trickle down, i've never seen a broke b#stard create a company and give people jobs. typical liberal demoKrat.
again, why do you think the MSP is in place?? why do you think they are all contractors? NO UNION POSSIBLE!!
I could resort to using incorrect satirical variations of your handle (user ID) such as you are attempting to do, but why? It is not only sophomoric and childish, but just plain unwarranted and a waste of my time.
Once AGAIN you have not read what has been written over & over AGAIN. We are not asking for more money, and nor is the CWA asking for more money on our behalf. Your just spouting standard company anti-union propaganda and you know it. Just from the wording of your posts I'd almost be willing to bet you are really a B&A corporate winnie posing as a MSP owner/tech.
If the company is moving along just fine now then why can they not continue to pay the rates as they have? They are not cutting our pay based on any cuts Directv is imposing on them, if they were they would certainly let us know that that was the case and lay the blame on Directv.
My fellow techs and I want the company to make a profit, if they do well so should we. But what we don't want is for them to decide they want more profit and then have them to take it from the tech's pockets.
Let me ask you this, today I do a 3 outlet install in 3 hours and I make $110 for it, that technically makes my labor worth $36.66 per hour, what suddenly makes my work worth only $13 and hour tomorrow (making only $39 total for the same job)? Answer= a greedy company who doesn't give a rat's behind about it's workers or their families who depend on that income.
As for the MSP's, if they are set up to handle the installs for retailers then why is it that Best Buy (one of the larger retailers for Directv) installs are now being done mainly by the HSP in our area??? Also, why have the HSP's been doing all the installs at Super Wal-marts (for their Directv demo & sales displays)? Not only that, the local HSP does all the installs that are sold through the area Wal-marts. So, what does D* need with the MSP's if the HSP are doing the majority of the work? The MSP's installs that I have run across are really shoddy and not up to D*'s standards and D* knows this, that is why they are sorry they ever started the MSP program and are planning on phasing it out quickly.
Bottom line is this what does it matter to you if the HSP's go union, if you are really a MSP? Based on your own theorizing that the MSP's are in place to take over if the HSP's go union, I'd think you'd be in favor of the union what with all the business it would supposedly bring you when the union forced the workers to strike and shut down the HSP's. Also if you are an MSP, a contractor who couldn't possibly go union then why are you even involved in this thread? Not being eligible for unionizing pretty much mutes any opinion you might have on the subject, doesn't it? Now if you want to come out of the closet and own up to being the B&A corporate mouthpiece I suspect you truly are, then your opinions should rightfully be heard and I will gladly yield the soapbox to you so you can have your say.