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Re: Union blasts SEANC leaders

GiggleBox — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:04:41 -0400

Submitted by snyderman on September 24, 2009 - 7:52am.

All Unions can KMA.

Can anyone explain this emotion?

I fully realize NC isn't a Union town, but I also know history and why Unions evolved. That whole Christian thing. Stupid Christians and their let's not send men to their deaths in coal mines clap trap.

Anyway... Why the hate of workers?

Surely one of you well bred Republicans can answer that.

Re: Union blasts SEANC leaders

snyderman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:52:02 -0400

All Unions can KMA. They have become un-American and no longer serve the purpose, a needed one, which once they did.

Re: Union blasts SEANC leaders

BitterEXdemocrat — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:53:38 -0400

SEIU is E V I L !!!

Re: Union blasts SEANC leaders

PaulTerrell — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:13:36 -0400

Unions should be only concerned with those that let them represent them. To me Unions are only about POWER and CONTROL. It is time for us to stand up to this intereference and reject their choices for our school board and other elected posts.

Re: Union blasts SEANC leaders

lefaim — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:10:49 -0400

UNITE-HERE has zero members in North Carolina after all their members left to form Workers United. What are they doing endorsing in a school board race?

Re: Health Plan narrowly passes key vote

johnmayer76 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:00:30 -0400

If you are uninsured and does not have insurance, you should check out the website http://UninsuredAmerica.blogspot.com - John Mayer, California

Re: Health Plan narrowly passes key vote

mcmillf — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:03:25 -0400

Totally absurd. You must rally together to investigate and re-organize the planning and administrative handling of state health insurance. This plan is unacceptable, overpriced and minimizes healthcare for selective groups. I am retired and cannot afford continued increases each year, while insurance coverage decreases. If you keep on, no one will want to work for the State. Freezing longevity, adding monthly premiums, and increasing premiums, co-pays and deductibles add to the budget of families. Many of these families are trying to put food on the table, pay power bills, cloth kids and buy medicines. We cannot afford to pay these outrageous prices. You are pricing your health plans out of business, and also out of state employment. Many families don't have a 2nd partner working for the state, and many of those spouses are unemployed. And the government wants us to spend money to boost the economy. RIGHT? No longer does the state offer incentives to recruit good hardworking employees. You get what you pay for too. Those incentives, affordable incentives, are what draws the better employees. Could be you're killing it. Please reconsider other ways to re-write this before it is too late for the current employees who have given dedicated years of service and for the younger employees who may be considering other lines of employment because they see no future in the STATE.

Re: Health Plan narrowly passes key vote

beachbum474 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:04:11 -0400

So what will you do when you FIRE 700 TAX PAYERS from the State Government and the younger state employees who survive the onslaught get priced out of the health care plan and turn to private insurance? Are you counting on losing all that revenue going into the SHP in future years? How will that lost revenue be made up? Will you just raise the premiums and co pays again? THINK THINK THINK! Plan you know at least 3 or 4 moves ahead instead of getting stuck at the first move. I'm a state employee (if my bias has not given me away by now) and I am a young one with a family. I can not afford the SHP any longer and the state WILL be losing my premiums and co pays. I pay around ~$500 per month x 12 = ~$6000 per year lost revenue to the SHP from just 1 employee. On top of that because I am paid so little (college degree professional paid poverty wages), we qualify for state government programs which we will start taking advantage of. Now add that into your cost for your seemingly inability to plan.

Re: Judge postpones Moore deposition

FFC1304 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:05:14 -0400

Moore is MORE CORRUPTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION...GET him outta there, people...he and Perdue are ARROGANT A**es! Power hungry mongrels...can we PLEASE elect someone OTHER than a democrackkk this time???