Comments on: Ironworkers rally for rights over construction project

By: AG

AG — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:27:54 +0000

If you work as a union member and wages and benefits are pre-negotiated how is it that you got paid 6 dollars an hour less.?

By: rodkiller11

rodkiller11 — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:23:08 +0000

I quit Davis/JD after 3 years because they started making deals with local BAs to pay $6 an hour under the rate with no benefits. Be wary of them. They will take away everything you’ve worked for all of your life. I left when the district council told me no benefits had been paid for 8 months. I can only speculate that the BA got a big kickback for making that deal. We’re being sold out from the inside AS WELL.

By: PR stunt for unions

PR stunt for unions — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:52:10 +0000

What’s going on with this now?

Lorena Gonzalez is now fully immersed in her campaign for California State Assembly. Is she coming back to Oceanside (outside her district), or was this just a PR stunt?

By: bleme

bleme — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:03:24 +0000

Instead of your vague accusations, how about some hard facts? What wage, exactly, are these “exploited” workers being paid? If you don’t know, you have just become another one of Gonzalez’s tools.

By: AG

AG — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:06:42 +0000

Wake up people and take responsibility in your communities, did you really understand the message? Don’t let these contractors outsource labor. If everyone uses local hire and pays a decent wage those workers WILL spend wages earned in their local community. Companies like JD Steel exploit workers, they suppress wages so much in areas like right to work states where they are from that it starves the local labor force to the point that they will go anywhere the company ships them off to just to make a few bucks for their families. These hard working men do a job that few can. Keep it in San Diego County! Keep it local!

By: Lorena still receiving union check?

Lorena still receiving union check? — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:38:00 +0000

You have to give it to union bosses like Gonzalez and union tools like Woods and Sanchez, they sure can put on a press conference. What are there, 7 people there?

Poor unions. They don’t get their welfare in the form of a Project Labor Agreement so they whine to …….well to whomever will cover there amateur-hour press conference.

And how does Lorena find this time to represent the “working man” when she appears to spend most of her time trolling for dollars for her Assembly race? Probably using union funds and union time to run for the seat.

A bit of advice to the Ironworkers: get your insane pricing down to sane levels and someone will hire you. Until then your jobs will be sent elsewhere and there is nothing you can do about it except whine.

By: PR stunt for unions

PR stunt for unions — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:19:11 +0000

They say the workers are coming from Arizona and then five workers from Southern California walk off the job.

Were the workers on the job who walked off union plants? Sounds like a set-up.

The bad on-site practice is not hiring union workers.

Regarding those interlopers from Arizona, no union worker in San Diego County has ever left the region to find work elsewhere. They don’t cross the border.

By “prevailing wages” the union people mean union collective bargaining payments that they squeeze out of their companies with the threat of a strike.

Maybe these workers have a better work ethic than the people who have the spare time to attend a rally?

They want to make the owner look bad, fire the company and its workers, and hire union workers instead.