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FIESA/Organize!!! - MT/outraged

Posted: Sep 26, 2012

FIESA. Just forget about it!! I see many postings to just let FIESA go. Well, to some of us, this means letting $3600 go per quarter, 14,000+ per year. I can work at a far less demanding job with no BS for that and that is what I will be doing. There are many whose "incentive" bonus is a large part of their income and it cannot be forgotten unless the finance company for our cars, the mortgage broker, the pharmacies and doctors, the kids, the lives of their families, are forgotten as well. This company is a joke with no concerns for its employees and exists and posts huge profits and degrades and demoralizes us. No union possibility but we need one badly. Maybe an organized sit-out would be fun. I would love a week off between Christmas and New Years and to have both holidays off. I remember that luxury. Work is slow then anyhow and we will probably be in OOW situations but required to "man" our computers. Maybe our worth would be recognized as they could not find replacements if all of us en force took a week off or two, all at the same time. We are the garment workers, piecemeal, and we are used and discarded. My worth is greater than that and I cannot be so easily replaced. We need to wake up and find a way to organize by ourselves if not with an organized union.

I am with you there - but we would have to

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All work together. We would all have to agree upon a sit out of our jobs or what other course of action that could be come up with. You can't organize a teacher strike if you don't have teachers on board to strike. While sure we could lose our jobs that many of us, including me, cannot afford to lose, but this has become an uphill mountain to climb to just make ends start to meet. When you are experienced in such a needed field, which has to do with one's health, you are not appreciated, you are put down and in not so many words told that you can be replaced. Sure they can ship all the work they want over to India, but how well is that going to work out for them in the long run. There comes a point in time that if I am required to have a higher education to do my job and I am required to have years of experience to even get a position of employment, then why am I not paid fairly for my work. Instead of being told, "be happy you have a job." Why is the majority of my work being done for free. You would think there is a law against this, however, these MTSO companies have become "smarter" in how they word contracts and how they word policies to get out of having to fairly pay their employees while they sit at a desk and make all the "rules" and become rich...the ones doing all the hard work are sitting here wondering will I be able to make my mortgage this month, I have to cancel plans with my family or appointments b/c there is OT offered and I need the money b/c later in the week there will not be work. So while the OT is offered and I think i'm going to get OT pay, I really won't b/c by the end of the week, I will not have had over 40 hours in b/c I ran out of work on other days that I was scheduled to work. Chained to our computers for what...a few cents a line. Too bad that they think that typing is all that is required to do our job. If that was the case, anybody that could type could work as an MT...only that is far from truth!!

We need a union. nm - nm

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I AGREE - We need a union

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If we had a union, we would have union fees, sure, but we would also have somebody fighting on our side for unfair wages and unfair employment practices. I wouldn't mind paying a small fee a year to make sure that I am paid what I am worth. Nothing like looking for a new job with over 10 years in the MT field and told hey we will only pay you 8 and 4. A recruiter doesn't know what to say when you turn down the job for the low wage pay except this is the industry standard.

I said we need a union - sm

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My ex husband was in the carpenter's union. I know some people think it is a racket. But, back in the day (think late '80s), he went from making $7/hour nonunion to $35/hour in the union. And yes, you pay a lot in union dues. What I am going to say in a second is not about Nuance per se but the MT industry, and that is the big guy will always take advantage of the little guy. I am appalled that we had our good insurance plan at Nuance pulled out from under us and I can't even afford my meds with the BC/BS MA ins. And all this back and forth MTs complain about between the team leads and the MTs and QC, that would be a thing of the past. It would all be hammered out. We would know what was expected out of us as MTs. My boyfriend said they would just send everything to India rather than hire union workers. I said good, then fire me and let me get UE and train for a new profession.

FIESA and $3600 a quarter? - AnnieOakley

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How did you come up with that much money for a loss? Don't you mean $360 a quarter? Please advise.

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