National Labor Relations Board Complaint against Nippon
The National Labor Relations Board has issued an 8-part complaint against Nippon Paper Industries USA. Nippon is alleged to have committed eight unfair labor practices.
posted by Tom Harper at 3:21 PM
38 Comments:
Okay....
Little doubt that Nippon committed the offenses. I'm glad that the Feds filed official charges. But Nippon will pay whatever meager penalties that might be imposed, as chalk it up to a cost of doing business. It's clear that mill managers believe - with good reason - they can get people to work there despite terrible conditions and unfair practices.
It's like dog training. You see it all the time.
Like gas prices, the "owners" raise the prices until people really start to complain. Then they lower them just a few cents, and people are all smiles. Who cares about Climate Change, any more?
With the economy, the owners just laid people off and closed companies. Then, when they open them back up, people are all smiles, even though now they have lower wages, less protections, and no benefits.
Not long ago, people cared about the future. Now, everything is out the window, and the only thing that matters is "Jobs, jobs, jobs".
We've been trained well.
I got to retirement okay, not rich, but okay, it doesn't cost much to be a bum.
So - when Nippon closes the paper mill, which it will undoubtedly do very soon, it will blame the workers and the NLRB for the inhospitable business climate. It will still expect hand-outs and tax credits from the government, though, for producing "renewable energy" from burning-up the Olympic Peninsula's forests.
Friends, I have heard the sad news. I have heard the wailing and moaning. I have heard the gnashing of teeth.
Yes! Wail!
Yes! Moan!
Yes! Gnash your teeth!
Cover yourself in sack cloth and ashes!
For the Max era has past!
O, woe and desolation!
O, calamity and confusion!
Who will post on this blog as "The Watcher", "Bodhi Clevins", "Not Andrew May"?
Who will rant against "Mayor McMoonbeam", "Mayor McKnucklehead", the "Korporate Kidd-bot"?
Fare thee well, Max Mania, forever our true Mayor!
Fare thee well, Dale Holiday, the Most Qualified Candidate, forever our true County Commissioner!
O, sorrow, sorrow, sorrow ...
In reply to Anonymous 3:55 -- Yes, indeedy. Fare thee both well, as long as it is SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Wooo whoooooooooH!
That Maineya fellerz gone an' caint stop no once no howes.
The youngunz is getting barndted tonaiht!
The hateful comments posted here and on the PDN about Dale Holiday & Max Mania tend to prove their points about racism, discrimination, and the grasping viciousness of people in Port Angeles.
Does Nippon violate laws and treat its employees like dirt? No problem.
Do port commissioners spend money wastefully and allow their insider good ole boys to have special perks and six figure do nothing jobs at public expense? Ho hum.
Does an educated black woman come to town and marry a white man who is equally intelligent and talented, and expect to be treated fairly by her employer? OMG! Tar and feather such a person and run both of them out of town!
CONDOM AD...
5:54 - Yes, it's creepy, the comments on the PDN today.
I like Tom's anonymous forum, MUCH easier to stomach - and the teabaggers who chime in here, really do try, they often attempt humor,and they do keep it very civil, compared to what they say at the non-anonymous PDN, which is sad and scary, power in numbers. And I guess it's a lot of "hey, look at me, I'm a bigger teabagger than you." I suspect the upcoming election for Max's seat has something to do with a few people here finding their keyboards, suddenly.
Don't think I've ever observed actual criticism of the guy...and Dale.
Many hateful people here, like most small rural towns. I used to see them in public, was VERY awkward, how people avoided them, even in the early days. Lots of projecting...very bizarre memories.
Pretty much boils down to "THEY ARE COMING TO TAKE YOUR MONEY, JOBS, CHILDREN..."
It's getting better, though!
"It's getting better, though!"
Yeah, when ya move to a community that actually has a future, or die.
Too bad Max and Dale aren't perfect, like the rest of us.
@3:55; and 4:43 -
you are one sick & sorry excuse for a human being
Some comments in PDN could be grounds for legal action.
Anyone read max's farewell letter? PA was here long before you Max, and I'm pretty sure it will make it without you. His supporters here are willfully blinded to max's antisocial personality traits.
It's pretty depressing all around and I can't help but feel the community is just plain toxic. It's a shame because this location is perfect. The problem is the people who live here: the small but vocal minority that yell hatred, sexism, racism, anti-governement, pro-business drivel at everyone and everything, and the rest of us who just sit here and do nothing about it.
I've lived here almost all my life and now over the last year or two I've started to think about leaving. I'm the type of person I would think the City Council wants to attract: young and educated. But everything they do just pushes me away.
If there are any lawsuits to be filed, rest assured that Max and Dale will eventually file them. They have a lot of experience at vexatious litigation from their time in Olympia and before.
Rumor has it that Dale didn't get as much from her settlement last week as she had hoped, hence the cleaning up of the desk and the turning in of the keys.
Take the money and run!
Went to Montana recently, spent a night at Paradise, not much there, about 200 nice people that have dropped out of the rat race and a 16 ounce glass of beer in the American Legion was only $1.75.
And gas in that area was the cheapest of the trip, good place to drop out of the rat race.
The new poll at the PDN website has four choices. One is "maybe" and another is "undecided".
Well, crap. What if I might do something, but I'm undecided about it? A tough choice, the vote today!
BBC - I like your picture there, often, to the left, but I think it makes me post less.
BBC - I like your picture there, often, to the left, but I think it makes me post less.
Would you care to explain why?
BBC - Hmmm...because your face says it all? It calms me, makes me less angry?
" I'm the type of person I would think the City Council wants to attract: young and educated. But everything they do just pushes me away."
I saw a caravan of trucks loaded up with household stuff leaving the neighborhood yesterday. Looks like some family is getting smart, and moving away before the new school year starts.
This town is more than just toxic.
A good man I once worked for in Colville later became the mayor. After two terms he told the town to go to hell, ya just can't make everyone happy, it's always a war between factions.
@12:30 a.m. - yes, agree 100%. BBC looks like a reasonable man one could dialog with, have disagreements with, and still come to consensus on issues. UNLIKE our city/county reps.for the voting taxpayers.
Run for office, B?
I'd like to see BBC in city gov't. instead of Peter Ripley.
I see Peter in the grocery store and his behavior is rude and contentious, seeingly trying to run down children and moms on his scooter. Really a poor example of leadership - so yeah they'll probably appoint him.
Wise people do not run for office, politicians and people foolish enough to think they can change and improve things do.
The only way I'd run a city is if I was the king of it.
They SHOULD appoint Peter. Then the public can see who he really is, and know why NOT to vote for him!
Peter Ripley should be appointed to fill Max's seat for the few remaining months of the term. Then he can say for posterity that he has served as a city council member and maybe that will satisfy him enough so that he will never run for office again. The voters surely will not actually elect him to the seat in the November election, will they?!?
There is a small bit of shade in my backyard, under a small apple. I have a thermometer there. At 4:00 pm today, a couple blocks east of the library, at 150ft elevation, it is 74. At 4:04 Channel 4 weather just reported it was 64 in PA.
Let's get rid of the airport altogether, drive to Sequim if we need a flight, bet they would love to expand theirs, and move the official thermometer to the library. Or high school. Somewhere "in-between" in elevation with a mix of trees and open space. Or keep the freaking airport, I don't care, but move the thermometer!
But NO, lets waste tons of money, and discourage tourism. And throw money at the cold part of town...turn the warm part into an industrial thoroughfare and put lots of lipstick on the pig....
I noticed one weather guy the other evening, when he reported the temperature on Whidbey, with an obvious heads up to the whale tour operators and B&B owners there, he said 99% of you are probably experiencing temperature much warmer than that! Might have been the guy from PA lol.
Most weather stations are set up to measure temperature at 2 meters above the ground, for consistency in comparing observations and the minimize localized effects. Measuring closer to the ground is almost always going to be warmer.
Lincoln High School has a better station at 9th and C which you can usually access through Weather Underground, but it often goes offline. Maybe the janitor is turning off the power strip?
The Lauridsen bridge replacement is underway now with a design that conveniently accommodates large trucks turning left down Race street. Look forward to hearing about rerouting the truck route along Lauridsen in the next 3-6 months. What they haven't realized is that will only eliminate the through-traffic trucks. As long as there is a bunch of heavy industry along the waterfront there will always be lots of tourist-repelling truck traffic. The waterfront isn't big enough for industry and tourism at the same time but the City Council and Port are trying their damnedest to fit them both in.
Peter Ripley actually getting elected to the council would be the torpedo that finishes off our "sinking ship".
I find it interesting that I may spend my last days on a sinking ship.
Carry on.....
Yes, we can only imagine how the re-routing of the truck route up Race Street, and across Lauridsen will affect the property values of the houses and businesses in the area.
Nice that the City bothered to be so up front about this, and inform the residents this is what they are turning their neighborhood into: a designated truck route.
Tourist headed up to Hurricane Ridge will love the experience of lining up with slow crawling heavy trucks spewing smoke as they grind their way up Race Street, going through those 20 mph zones, and stopping at all the lights and pedestrian crosswalks.
Existing owners will try to move. But, they will find few buyers wanting to have an officially designated truck route in front of their houses, and so the prices will drop until someone buys. Market dictates.
And, the city will get a drop in tax revenues, as that block of real estate gets devalued.
Why should the City be upfront, or truthful? Why engage the existing residents in honest discussions about their community and its' future? They are just continuing in the way they, and the Port have been doing things for years.
Because, as we know, the people just don't care enough to do anything about it.
This city is pretty good at trashing its' own neighborhoods.
I'm thinking about that mayor a few years back that told the residents of Gales Addition they had to sign agreement to allow the city to annex their neighborhood, or else he was going to turn off the water to their houses. I'll bet people felt real good about that.
Then there was the whole battle over the Graving Dock, where the leaders in this town "overlooked" mentioning the Indian grave yard when they promoted the site for a state project. Then, after the bodies started to be dug out of the ground, they blamed the Indians for stopping progress.
Then there is the "jewel" of the city, the 75 acres of waterfront property that was the former Rayonier mill site. The city buys the center 11 acres to build a sewage processing facility featuring a huge 5 million tank. Then creates Harborworks, spending millions more to try to find industrial, commercial and retail business to locate on the remaining aces. Not surprisingly, nobody wanted to invest in property next to a 5 million gallon sewage tank.
To add to the craziness of this supposed planning by the city, before the sewage tank project is even finished, or has processed even one drop of sewage, the city then created a program to encourage people not to use it, with more tax money as rebates.
Now we see them working to negatively impact the neighborhoods up Race, and along Lauridsen with this truck route.
Which neighborhood is next?
I don't know which neighborhood is next but I know that there will be people expecting to be paid damn good money while they help you 'improve' your town.
And I know that your city leaders will be stupid enough to hire those people.
6:33, 9:03, etc. - Thanks, interesting/scary. 73 at my house, weatherchannel says 62. I bet it is very nice right now on most of the hiking trails in the park along the rivers. Bet it's warmer than 62! How many decades before our city/county will promote that we have some of the BEST and most accessible hiking in the world at our doorstep!? Literally minutes away? Even in the winter, it's great hiking. Even in Seattle, people do not know this. Why don't we send someone over, lets say to Snoqualimie Falls, a very busy hike. And poll/interview/put it on youtube - the hikers, how many have been over here? What would our mayor charge us to do that herself personally? It would probably make the news...and not cost $30,000. We need an elected mayor so we can inject some vision. I'd also like to see a debate between Ripley and Wheatham. Informal, in the woods, encourage "authentic" period lumberjack/native costumes, etc.
And people wonder why Port Angeles isn't attractive? Why people and businesses don't move here in droves, and why so many leave after a year or two?
Remember when NOAA said they rejected Port Angeles as a place to locate their western offices, because Port Angeles didn't have an adequate "quality of life" for its' employees?
I know, everyone has it all wrong. Port Angeles is actually a wonderful place, despite what it looks like,despite what happens here over and over.
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