Laid-off Workers and Overpaid Bureaucrats
I’m just reprinting a letter that was in the Peninsula Daily News last Wednesday —
“Regarding the Dec. 14 letter to Peninsula Voices, “Haigiwara’s re-hiring,” as a former employee of K Ply, ITT PenPly and Peninsula Plywood for 40 years, this is what my severance package was, owner by owner, as a union member:
First was the sale of Peninsula Plywood to ITT PenPly to Klukwan, of which I received $4,000, of which Uncle Sam took $1,500, which left me with $2,500, and I had to apply for a job with K Ply, no guarantee of getting re-hired.
Then, the fall of K Ply, of which I received no severance and no vacation pay from the previous year, which was four weeks pay acquired, and no state COBRA insurance continuance due to K Ply failing in their part, so we were dropped and found this out two months after the fact.
Now, the Port of Port Angeles has taken over the K Ply property, and it sounds like the chance of getting re-hired by a new owner is out the door.
Maybe the Port would like to pay the former employees of K Ply what is owed, since they have lots of money to fire and then hire former employees and give them large severance packages because of the excuse he was not able to be union.
The workers of K Ply were union, and we got the shaft and nothing more.
Happy holidays, former K Ply employees. Your coal is in the mail. Ho ho ho.”
“Regarding the Dec. 14 letter to Peninsula Voices, “Haigiwara’s re-hiring,” as a former employee of K Ply, ITT PenPly and Peninsula Plywood for 40 years, this is what my severance package was, owner by owner, as a union member:
First was the sale of Peninsula Plywood to ITT PenPly to Klukwan, of which I received $4,000, of which Uncle Sam took $1,500, which left me with $2,500, and I had to apply for a job with K Ply, no guarantee of getting re-hired.
Then, the fall of K Ply, of which I received no severance and no vacation pay from the previous year, which was four weeks pay acquired, and no state COBRA insurance continuance due to K Ply failing in their part, so we were dropped and found this out two months after the fact.
Now, the Port of Port Angeles has taken over the K Ply property, and it sounds like the chance of getting re-hired by a new owner is out the door.
Maybe the Port would like to pay the former employees of K Ply what is owed, since they have lots of money to fire and then hire former employees and give them large severance packages because of the excuse he was not able to be union.
The workers of K Ply were union, and we got the shaft and nothing more.
Happy holidays, former K Ply employees. Your coal is in the mail. Ho ho ho.”
posted by Tom Harper at 4:43 PM
16 Comments:
oh, thankfully BBC is camping...so, none of his irrational, boob-centric posts, so far.
Moderator...can't you edit that boobjob? Or at least, muzzle him?
sign of the times, zilch for laid off workers and 6 figures for useless bureaucrats.
Good news in today's paper. There might be a buyer for K-Ply. Probably not but at least there's still hope.
Yeah, there is a buyer for K-Ply like there was a buyer for the old Rainer mill.
Somebody needs to buy K-Ply or do something productive with that property. We need some reliable high paying jobs in this area.
No, we just need living wage jobs, not high paying jobs that draw others here and make this place bigger.
I've worked here for ten to fifteen bucks an hour since moving here ten years ago and have done just fine, often working just part time.
Everyone always wants more, it's stupid. Let them move somewhere else if they want more, I have all I need.
It's not what you make, it's how you spend what you make. I get by just fine on $881.00 a month and still manage to help others and do what I want to do.
881 a month is greedy. You make too much...I want some o' dat.
The "workers" are always yammering about something. They're full of complaints but try and get a lick of work out of them. Forget it!
I say all these bums should be laid off. It's better to pay honest workers lower wages. That way they stay productive and want to work. Minimum wage is way too high. An employer should pay based on how much work he gets out of them, not what someone in D.C. says!
Hey, these bureaucrats have to do the work these unionized slackers won't do. Don't blame the management, blame the "workers"!
Anybody know about any events or concerts on New Years Eve around here? Nothing in the PDN, nothing found online.
Concerts?...stay on topic dude...we need WORK, not some friggin concert.
There is music and dancing at the Eagles on New Years Eve, damn good dance floor there. But I don't have a mate to dance with so I'm not going there.
Good entertainment at the casino. The Castaways should be hopping.
Reggie's is having karaoke and I love to sing but I'm not going there. I'm going camping.
Anonymous.... 881 a month is my SS money, I earned it after years of honest labor. But I'm not assuming that it will be here next year the way things are going.
What would I do then? I'll get by, I'm a county boy and my place is free and clear.
New Year's Eve has been cancelled by orders of the Dear Leader.
Hey thanks BBC for the New Years Eve information. I've been checking the PDN every day for a week, did a google search for "Port Angeles New Years Eve." Zilch.
Well our daily rag finally comes through, a day late and a dollar short.
Here is their writeup on New Years Eve happenings. Better late than never I guess.
"Hey, these bureaucrats have to do the work these unionized slackers won't do. Don't blame the management, blame the "workers"!"
Oh hell with that. Lot of places I've worked, the manager unlocks the door, gets the tils ready, and hides in their office all day reading, or even leaving the store to go shopping. When the day is over, they close the tils and send the money to accounting. Occasionally they'd go out on the floor and yell at a random worker just to show they're the boss. Otherwise it was the workers that did everything: inventory, customer relations, troubleshooting, shoplifters. One place we even closed the tils.
To be fair, it was usually only a couple workers who actually did anything while the rest took advantage and slacked off. The slackers, oddly enough, usually got the raises. The people who worked looked for other jobs.
That's still no reason to drop all workers wages below minimum wage while giving the useless manager all the money. Seriously, do you really want to pay your most productive employees $3 an hour just because they're "workers". I say get rid of the deadwood and pay productive people what they're worth, whether they're a lowly worker or even the rare decent management.
Or, better yet, if you're one of those crappy companies... CLOSE!
About five/six years ago the company took over the two Jackpot stations here. Hired an all new crew except for one lady for the West store.
I was one of the new crew and helped them remodel it and get it ready to open. They was going to make me the manager but at the last days hired an idiot manager out of a car wash on the sound.
Nice guy but an idiot. Hell, the folks in Seattle were idiots also so it wasn't all his fault.
I opened the store every morning and got the deli rocking and ran things alone until the rest of the crew started coming in a few hours later.
I had more problems with those idiots (I had been a manager for years before moving here) and was always getting on them but they wouldn't listen to me.
I said to hell with it an quit and assured them that they wouldn't be here long, less than a year later they packed up and moved out of town.
They liked my work and wanted me to travel around the state helping them remodel and reopen new stores, I told them to go to hell.
GOOD NEWS, by Edward Abbey, odd title for that kind of book being as most of it is really ugly, great read about the Clusterfuck Nation though if you are looking for a good read.
You seem like the kind of person that would.
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