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going on a strike....sm - confused

Posted: Dec 04, 2014

We should all go on strike until they fix this pay plan or give us our old pay and leave it alone. Thousands of MLS on strike would have an impact. Even hundreds might. It's the only way to get heard or our point across. We are the "bottom feeders" but we are the ones doing all the hard work, have the schooling for it and produce in order for the higher guys to get their lovely bonuses and big checks. We make them money. We are the company basically. If so many are outraged then we need to do something about it.

and let me add....sm - confused

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The company isn't "evil" per say, like someone else noted. They want more money and are all about the money. We want more money too and need to pay bills, etc. Obviously MTs DID NOT come up with this plan nor have any say in it. It was clearly people who do not even type probably and never have even done this work. THAT is where the problem lies. I say go on a strike or demand a re-do or bring back our old pay scale in forms of either a strike, mass letters, mass e-mails, etc. SOMETHING. If they want a new plan then the majority of the people coming up with it should be MLS and TSMs. The ones who produce a ton and some that are average and a few management higher people sprinkled in. JMO though.

Strike - Dream on

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If you strike, walk out, whatever you call it, without a union you will get fired, all they will have to is send your work overseas. You don't have the right to walk off the job simply because you don't like it. Have you ever worked anywhere where the employees had input into the pay scale? Sorry but you need to wake up and smell the coffee on that one. It's been said time and again - quit and find another job. I don't work there and I'm not in management, but I wouldn't stay where I couldn't make any money, regardless of the type of work.

they can't fire you...sm - confused

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I believe it is illegal for an employer to fire you while on strike. That is the whole point of one. So the employees can get their voices heard. My point is- complaining on here all day long will do nothing. These concerns and complaints need to get taken to the management and even higher. If they get flooded with them they will have to listen. Especially on a strike. That is the point. When you have hardly any MTs on producing for a week..they will listen up.

You're all going to get canned anyway! Don't - you see that? This latest - sm

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farce of a "pay scale" is just another means of facilitating that.

Check out Ronald Reagan and the - FAA in the 1980s

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Yes, you can be fired on strike. Yes, you can be replaced.

Why expect increased pay in a job which can be so easily off shored or seemingly replaced by machines.

A LOT of people do not make what they did in the 1970s and 1980s. A LOT of jobs that existed in the 1970s and 1980s simply do not exist.

Quit wasting your time.

yes they can - me

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They are at "at will" company, they can fire you if they don't like the color of your eyes.

Good Advice! - They are going to send it all overseas anyway.

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Put together your resume and walk away with your head held high.

Umm, yes they ARE evil. There is absolutely - NOTHING about this bunch that isnt.

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NOT OUR OLD PAY, NEW AND MORE PAY - CINDY

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After going on strike, McDonald's workers want 15.00 an hour. We should all get that or more, but their production rates are almost impossible unless you can do mega lines per hour to make a decent rate. I don't see why our rates have gone down over the years, when they should have went up. Instead of making 8 cents a line for straight typing should be 11 and voice rec should be 7. That's only fair.

So sickening!

No one's going to hear that message if we - dont get it out there. Shut em down!

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Strike - will not help

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Just find another job like I did and get the H our while the getting is good. They are driving themselves into the ground as the offshore work is severely subpar and the customer are not going to put up with that. They are making their own beds. Karma, karma

But is sure can HURT. (Them, of course). - What better reason to do it?

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Today's fast-food workers' strike has grown. - It now includes workers from - sm

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airports, home healthcare, dollar stores, convenience stores, and gas stations. I think medical transcriptionists should be the next group of workers to join them.

Go for it - Be my guest

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What are you waiting for?

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