So your employer wants you to agree it can change your contract at will - Sears workers locked out

Hannah Bell

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Sun Nov-14-10 02:22 AM
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So your employer wants you to agree it can change your contract at will - Sears workers locked out

Edited on Sun Nov-14-10 02:24 AM by Hannah Bell

This video will make you laugh and also it will make you think.

Imagine your big American owned employer wants you to agree that they can change your pay, benefits, and pension agreement at will. This is why you got the Union in in the first place, to stop that.

Now you are Locked Out and Scabs are crossing your picket line daily with the help of the police and the Provincial government.

What do you do? Fight back any way you can! Watch this video and then pick up the phone or email Sears and tell them you are not going to shop there anymore until they treat their employees fairly. We demand Anti-Scab legislation NOW!

Canada...they look a bit more militant than americans...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tH-Uf5KS-c

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Raine

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Sun Nov-14-10 03:35 AM
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1. Interesting

Edited on Sun Nov-14-10 03:36 AM by Raine

my father retired from Sears in Los Angeles some time ago they were never able to unionize. THANKS for posting this and the link.

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laughingliberal

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Sun Nov-14-10 03:41 AM
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2. K & R nt

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old mark

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Sun Nov-14-10 07:25 AM
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3. I was an AFSCME steward when I was a PA state civil sevice worker - Our contracts ALL

carried disclaimers that the mamagement may do anything necessary to continue operations whether it violates the contract or not, so long as it believes the measure is necessary - there is NO recourse.

Could be the wave of the future-Fuck the workers because we say so.

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canoeist52

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Sun Nov-14-10 08:46 AM
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4. Geesh, what's the point of parties signing such a contract?

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ProgressiveProfessor

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Sun Nov-14-10 09:31 AM
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7. That is an artifact of most civil service contracts at all levels

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Sun Nov-14-10 08:50 AM
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5. Unrec...nt

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Sun Nov-14-10 10:44 AM
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stillwaiting

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Sun Nov-14-10 09:18 AM
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6. Rec

:)

Thanks Hannah (as always)

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polly7

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Sun Nov-14-10 10:27 AM
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8. K & R I stopped shopping with Sears after they closed the only

help / call center in Regina and outsourced it, but will call in again and pretend I'm still a customer. I used to like Sears a lot.

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old mark

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Sun Nov-14-10 10:41 AM
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10. My dad worked for Sears for 20+ years, as did my younger brother -

Edited on Sun Nov-14-10 10:44 AM by old mark

only for a year or so, in his case...
Sears was a very employee-friendly company after WWII, paid a lot of bonuses in company stock, which at the time was climbing and would climb very high...My dad retired for good at 55, lived just on profits from his by then large portfolio of various stocks and other investments, and still does at almost 94.
In the mid 1970's, my brother applied for a Sears credit card, and was told he didn't make enough money to qualify because he was a Sears employee...Times changed.

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moondust

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Sun Nov-14-10 11:03 AM
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12. Profit sharing.

My mother worked in a Sears office for around 15-20 years in the 60's and 70's. She also received a great benefit package that included profit sharing with company stock. I recall her mentioning, I believe sometime in the 70s, that Sears was starting to hire a lot more part-time employees so as to avoid paying all those nice benefits.

Now I can't remember the last time I heard somebody talk about their profit sharing and wonder if it even exists anymore.

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old mark

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Sun Nov-14-10 12:31 PM
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13. They started a tier system for new employees - fewer bennies, little or no

profit sharing, more commission on sales but less pay and perks.
My brother worked there in the late 1970's, IIRC, in their photography department...It was no longer a good job by that time.

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Sun Nov-14-10 10:38 AM
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9. No longer rule by soverign nations and free people -- rule by corporations/fascism....

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