Unions Out for Blood at the Red Cross – Time for a Hostage Negotiator?
by Liberty ChickAs one Change to Win labor union blocks a Red Cross blood delivery today, what will a health care system taken hostage by labor unions look like tomorrow?
As Change to Win’s Anna Burger is leading her coalition of unions to lobby all around the country “until every man, woman and child has quality, affordable care they can count on,” one of her unions is busy blocking the delivery of a Red Cross blood donation to a hospital and picketing private companies’ blood drives.
The Red Cross, which has union workers in various locations who are covered both by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and SEIU, says union leaders are trying to disrupt the Red Cross Blood Services operations by going on strike.
That’s right. At a time of year when blood donations are at their lowest levels and are the most urgently needed, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, SEIU’s sister union and member of Burger’s Change to Win labor coalition, took advantage of the opportunity to go on strike on December 4th against the American Red Cross Blood Services Penn-Jersey Region. Local 929 initiated the strike at midnight just as their contract expired. Hours later, the Red Cross was forced to take legal action when some strikers illegally blocked one blood delivery in particular
“the Red Cross says it had to inform union members that a two-year-old child’s life depended on our blood delivery before they would allow a Red Cross vehicle to exit the yard to get the necessary blood products to the hospital.”
In the Penn-Jersey region alone, the Red Cross provides blood to over 100 hospitals. This incident forced the Red Cross to seek a court injunction against the union, which it won from the court later the same day.
The Red Cross says it is currently in negotiations with union leaders over a pay raise for union workers who package and deliver blood to hospitals, provide assistance at blood drives and help maintain their facility. While the agency struggles during this economic slump, it has been forced to temporarily suspend merit raises for its non-union staff, as are so many other businesses and non-profit organizations. This has become the primary sticking point in negotiations with the union, which will not agree to the freeze.
“We are simply asking union employees to make the same sacrifices that their non-union colleagues have already made,” said Anthony Tornetta, Communications Manager for the Red Cross Penn-Jersey Blood Region. “Their refusal to do so remains a significant issue in these negotiations.”
The Teamsters have insisted that the issue is one of working conditions and pay, charging the Red Cross engages in unfair labor practices that endanger the safety of the workers and the blood products they deliver. Union leaders accuse the Red Cross of caring more about boosting profits than worker safety, complaining of consecutive workdays without a day off in between. However, the Red Cross maintains that the negotiation issue is one of pay and not safety, indicating that there have been no unfair labor practice complaints filed by the local Teamsters union regarding these negotiations. The union is also demanding a pay increase while non-union workers are under a wage freeze until June 30, 2010. Outside the negotiating table, picketers are telling passersby and media that the working conditions are causing safety issues for donors and staff. But as the Red Cross indicated, the union’s behavior is in stark contrast with this claim, pointing out that blocking critical blood deliveries has potentially endangered patient safety, a concern with which the court has agreed.
While the average American will agree that workers at any organization, including the Red Cross, should be treated fairly and labor practices should keep them and the products they deliver safe, what’s been called into question by the general public is the contrast with non-union workers’ concessions, the very ill timing of the strike, and the tactics being employed. Citizens are questioning the sincerity and broader motives of the executive union leaders at the very top.
Not only was picketing not limited to Philadelphia, it wasn’t even limited to the Red Cross. The Teamsters took their fight over to other unrelated private businesses conducting their own blood drives. Unbeknownst to the employees at Mannington Mills in South Jersey, striking Teamsters caught wind of their planned blood drive in advance and showed up to picket along the route to their company. According to the Today’s Sunbeam paper, Mannington Spokeswoman Betsy Amoroso said the blood drive went on as scheduled with many Mannington employees taking part, adding that employees realize the importance of donating blood this time of year when supplies tend to traditionally be lower because of the holidays.
Here’s why this story is an important piece of a larger picture. Consider for a moment the following:
- Change to Win and partner union leaders are working diligently to convert and unionize as many private sector jobs as possible, even when it’s done without the knowledge of the private worker. To do so, they are strong-arming companies and organizations into paying union workers wages that collectively are on average 30% higher than non-union workers in the private sector.
- In parallel, the same union leaders are quickly winning federal funds to be funneled into the private sector so that government will then have the legal authority to intervene and unionize private jobs and convert them to public jobs where they see fit.
- Now imagine that we also have government-run health care. We know that SEIU, sister union to the Teamsters as part of Anna Burger’s Change to Win coalition, will take over a good deal of health care jobs. What will picketers do then?
When we have a union disgruntled over a pay freeze that has resorted to blocking a blood donation delivery, on its way to save the life of a 2-year old child, from reaching a hospital, we have a problem. When we have unions that control the majority of health care, home care, nursing home care, child care, pharmacy, radiology, and public workers in this country, we will have a catastrophe.
I predict hostage negotiation may become next year’s new hot job. Let’s hope it’s not unionized.
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Does anyone work anymore?
Always posturing and positioning….
There's a way to get more money. Work hard or get into another industry.
http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff
I don't. I just got laid off.
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WOW, just wow.
"Does anyone work anymore? "
Thinking Andy Stern has two ultimate outcomes. He takes over and his quest to destroy Amerika prevails. OR. We take over and our zeal to prosecute him drives him to fall on his sword.
Please America. Help us with the latter. Great work Liberty Chick. Katie Couric can't even hold your lip gloss.
Thank God Texas is a right to work state. We don't deal well with unions down here.
Further proof that unions need to be tossed into the ash can of history.
We need a Ronald Regan. He would fire the union in a flash. The Jehovah's witnesses also oppose blood transfusions.
There will be no new houses built until everyone has a roof over his head. There will be no more agriculture funding till no one goes hungry. There will be no more blood donations till no one has leukemia.
The fact that these unions have pre-made signs you just write your employers name in with a sharpie should tell you something about thier mentality.
The Teamsters are Jimmy Hoffa's union….no kidding!
If your having problems with forced unionisation or are getting tired of hearing about Obama's socialist armies{unions}.Go to this website.The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. http://www.nrtw.org/
Good place for information.
Amen.
Well the government pay, and payroll is WAY up. I think the first requirement for any rep in next years election is to force pay and payroll back to June 2008 levels for feds.
If the dummocrats think "health care" is a moral issue, then how can ANY of them in good conscience not see this as so very wrong? WWRD? He'd fire ALL of them and replace them immediately, and probably jail anyone who tried to stop any delivery OR donation! What a bunch of jacka$$es!!! Makes my blood boil.
I say we all move to Texas or somewhere the govment will leave us alone.
Just another shining example of why unions have worn out their welcome in the U.S. and are going to be a thing of the past SOON!
Democrats say health care is a moral issue … then they say you can't regulate abortion because "you can't legislate morality in America!"
I would accuse them of speaking out of both sides of their head, but I think they're really speaking out of a lower place.
I've seen these guys in the picture at blood drives……they unpack the truck, set up the tables and then read magazines and listen to their iPods until it's time to pack up and leave. Oh yes, a VERY stressful work environment. I'm not exactly sure how failing to pander to these low skilled bottom feeders endangers donors in any way. The medical PROFESSIONALS who draw my blood are always pleasant and very serious about my safety (As an R2 donor, my donations can last an hour or more).
A final point: If I'm driving a 2 ton truck and a 2 yr old's life was at stake, I wouldn't bother to discuss the situation with soon to be roadkill.
Sorry, but while the NRTW is fighting the good fight there still is this:
Freedom and American Labor Relations Law: 1946-1996
Read and be prepared for disappointment because the Feds have screwed us all and have given the union thugs the upper hand.
The more I study the photo, the more convinced I am that Darwin was right in his theory, and we descended from monkeys. Some moreso than others.
Why does the Red Cross need a Union? Does the Red Cross have so many fantastic employees they need to offset them with a boat load of dead beats!
This is on the order of tin-foil hat insidiousness, the unions are very aware of what they are doing…
If I work as a non-union employee at a business that has union employees who make 30% more than I do, for the same work; what are the odds I would switch to union representation.
Unions had a function ages ago, now they will be the downfall of the US economy. Unions are an obsolete relic of a darker time, its time we evolved beyond them as workers.
LOL………we need Charlton Heston driving the truck…."Out of my way, you damned dirty apes!"
These illiterate liberal thugs and socialist cretins are begging for a shooting civil war.
Obama's got the NLRB stacked with his people that interpret the law his way.
Good.
As I recall, the side we are on has all the guns and ammo.
Could he at least have put jeans on? I mean come on, self-grooming is one of the most basic of human instincts.
I wonder if, while they were protesting, one of their family members had gotten shot or hit by a car and needed a transfusion but couldn't get one because of them.
We will always have room for patriots.
Actually in most cases, the unions are pimping "job security" now. I'd bet Obama could care less about job creation, it takes away "need" from the "you need a union" script that they are playing out now.
Hey, how about this freaking idea you freaking UNION thugs !!! Quit !!!
My God is healthcare going to suffer under SEIU….. Please America Wake the F UP !!!
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Obama and his union bosses blamed President Bush when American companies began running for the border in search of (non-union) lower labor costs. Now who is he going to blame?
Great post, Liberty Chick!
This weekend Italian Premier, Berlusconi, was hit in the face with a statue that broke his nose and several teeth. I'm amazed that this isn't happening on a daily basis to the political prostitutes and sellouts throughout this nation. I would remind all these liberal anti-American bottom feeders that vote to destroy our healthcare and economy: unless you plan on leaving the US after you're done selling out the people you will be living amongst us and we will not forget what you did.
Andy Stern should go to the same place Hoffa is. NO ONE KNOWS he's just gone.
They've got pepper spray and whistles. I'm ready to get started with the festivities; a stuffed hippie with a Santa hat nailed to my front door would look great for the holidays.
Ugh, make sure you deodorize it first……the smell of crap and patchouli will keep the carolers away.
They have no shame, which is why they're braindead liberals.
I heard a story about a Union forcing the company they worked for to sign a contract stating that everyone would be able to keep their jobs for the next 10 years. The day after the contract was signed the company closed the factory and took it overseas. So much for job security.
If the working conditions are soooo bad… try working on an assembly line in the early 1900s. I'm sure you'll change your mind.
If working conditions are so bad, why are there no complaints to OSHA?
The Unions are why we are suffering…
Sad thing here is these guys probably make $16-$20 an hour already.
And here:
http://www.1-888-no-union.com
Good read.Thanks.It's not always that cut and dried though.
Unions will never be totally gone from the US as long as we have lazy morons who think they are underpaid for the work they do and selfish jerk offs who take advantage of them. I work for the Fed and I'm non-union. The joke around here is you can tell who the members are because they are always walking around the halls doing nothing and complaining about how they deserve more. This is my contact with unions and it makes me sick, we have employees here that if they were working for a non-union company they would be unemployed.
Cowboy, you are making me cringe with your racial references. You have tainted ALL of your posts with the comments you have just made. Unforgivable.
Another effort by unions to demand higher pay at the expense of everyone but themselves. They are willing to bankrupt a company in a effort to line their own pockets. I have an idea, give yourself a pay raise by not paying your union dues. I guess they don't realize that OSHA regulations mandate a healthy workplace and the company has to abide by it. A shining example of greed and selfishness that puts peoples health and very life at risk. These idiots should be incredibly ashamed of themselves.
Yeah, that's the look of people who don't know how to work.
I would rather die that get a blood transfusion after those lazy cullards in the picture has handled it.
On the union agenda: Elimination Right to Work states.
A bil was introduced in Congress last year, but didn't go anywhere (http://employerreport.blogspot.com/2008/08/worker...
It will come up again.
Nothing like a bunch of thugs holding signs keeping those in need from obtaining blood. Such a caring, loving bunch.
Am I reading this correctly ? These two unemployed minority scumbags are trying to prevent delivery of a LIFE SAVING BLOOD DELIVERY ? I hope their mama's aren't the intended recipients !
The teamsters need a Reagan boot like he did with the PATCO unions when air traffic controllers walked off in a labor dispute in the early 80's. He fired them all. What a guy !
This should cost ObamaPOS another few points of negative "gratitude" on the Rasmussen poll. This is fun to watch !
Sorry but no more donating of my hard earned cash knowing these fools are taking a huge slice of the pie.
Here is something for Unionized Health Care workers to think about. Right now the unions are "representing" the cause of the workers, so they say. The Union negotiates with the Hospital, company, or whatever medical services agency for higher wages, because the money has to come from said company or "employer" inorder to pay the higher wages. If the Union doesn't get it's way it has various government agencies and courts, especially under this administration, to go to for help or to go on strike and force the "employer" into submission. What happens when the "employer" and the US Government are one in the same, your triangle of Union (worker), Employer, and Government becomes a straight line, who do you think is going to win? The Union definitely because they will still collect somewhere around 5 to 8 percent of your pay, wages which will not be allowed to be increased by the Government, your new employer. Food for thought.
Seems a bit low for union workers. Maybe that's why they're upset.
It's a crime for union workers to earn any less than $30 an hour! /sarc
If there was ever a group that needed to be allowed to bust a union, it would be the Red Cross. However two issues prevent union busting, the NLRB and the reality that unions are exempt from anti-trust laws. The NLRB is nothing more than a Federal spokesperson for unions, and the anti-trust exemption allows unions to negotiate on a national basis rather than as individual local unions. Until these two legal abominations are corrected, we will forever have to deal with union stupidity.
Go to Detroit some time…. It' a zoo….
Exactly….I should have said they are pimping the "illusion" of job security.
Oh, you mean Jimmy's father Jimmy, the guy Geraldo thought he found! The kid, Jimmy Jr. runs the Teamsters.
http://www.teamster.org/
That is a good one, I'll have to remember that! Hey, when is Obama going to get after the fat-cat labor leaders? There is a Teamster's office on the first floor of where my dentist is. They've got Denali's, Mercedes, BMWs, and Lincoln town cars outside, nicer cars than my dentist drives and he actually works for a living! Oh, and hush on the foreign cars, the Teamsters don't want their buddies at the UAW to know about that!!! I'm going to have to take a picture the next time I'm there.
MMM MMM MMM!
I wonder if those guys picketing realize that their union boss, James P Hoffa makes $383K off their backs, by taking their money in union dues. And that is what he reports, you know they also pay all his airfare, meals, hotels, etc. too.
Hoffa's got some gig going too…he's the President of IBT (the Teamsters), he's the VP of the Bldg & Construction Trades union, the Trustee of the Natl Heavy & Highway Coalition, and on the Executive Bd of Change to Win and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente.
unions need to be destroyed.
we should start anti-union unions, with union status. Run these thugs out of work.
protestor is an actual job nowadays
I appreciate your opinion.
My calling a spade a spade has never gone over well here. As to being unforgivable, I have been unforgiven all my lfe………….
i guess the D.E.A. is getting its job done, more inintended consequences
if a competitor in your industry is paying more for labor than they should then they should be less competitive and your company should be doing better, there are no free lunches
That is not a bad idea….small workplace unions not connected to the crooked nationals actually work well if the people that control the $ are honest. You control the $ at a local level.
That is good info!! Do you know any sites with good info on union decertification?
Given the red cross is in the business of helping others, why do we not see the oh so concerned liberal whiners helping out in the delivery of much needed blood. Oh I forgot everyone else is supposed to be volunteers, they only make noise as concerned humans and have met their obligation to society by being motor mouths.
My best friend has leukemia and is platelet dependent right now. That means that she needs to get an infusion every other day. She lives in the greater Philadelphia area and the thought of these thugs possibly preventing her from getting the blood products she needs is not only infuriating – it is immoral and wrong.
But that's nothing new for the Teamsters and the SEIU.
Hoffa was never found, can someone hide Stern and his thugs in the same hole. If I had a relative in that hospital who needed blood you could shovel it up in the parking lot as it leaked from the union thugs. A 5,000 pound truck doing 100MPH would take them out. That is a fact.
I am a relative newcomer to BigGovernment, BigHollywood, and Breitbart, et al., so excuse me for the presumption, but what is the problem with some of the posters here? What does the skin color of these unionists have to do with anything, other than which color of "skin-tone" bandages they buy when they get a boo-boo? What they are doing is reckless, even evil, but they skin color has no bearing on the issue.
I sometimes drive by a factory which makes 18-wheelers. When there is the occasional strike there, and the unionist are out blocking the entrances and exits, 55 gallon barrel fires roaring, their skin color is plainly visible. They are almost all, if not entirely all, white. Relevance? None.
That's the point.
I'm will to grant some of these folks are mobys. See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mo... definition 1.
In the words of Bill Cosby, "come on people!"
I work for the red cross, being forced to work a minimum of 60 hours a week. We're just asking for more help. The red cross is making us out to be bad guys, but if you only knew. The red cross is saying we stopped a shipment to a 2 year old, its a lie. Red cross is saying there is a blood shortage again not true. Blood is being thrown away right now because it's over stocked. They are canceling blood drives because we have to much, nobody is buying blood. If you want to voice yourself to me my email is irishidi0t@aol.com
Hi there RR&J,
hey i just wanted to tell you that i really don't like the implication your avatar seems to suggest. America is not ruled by the "star of david" and quite frankly it really offends me…if you want to live under an amalgam of the star and the US flag then you should move back to Isreal, LIKE NOW!
We real Americans know that we are fighting too many wars for the "star of david" (actually one war is too many) and we are tired of it…
please understand i am not trying to be mean, im just venting my opinion which i believe i am allowed to do this wonderful country.
please don't yell me either my feelings are easily hurt.
I would love to see this strike drag out. I've read in the past that the SEIU spent so much money to get Obama elected, that it basically looted their reserves. The only real expense unions have is to provide strikie pay. Will they have the money to pay their strike pay? I don't want the union workers to suffer, just to expose the abuses the bosses and what is really happening with their dues.
This Hoffa is his son. You know the mafia types keep it in the family.
Well, they have some……but the last time I checked, a Colt 1911a1 trumps a Raven 25 any day ; – )
These people should be ASHAMED of themselves and for the lives they are possibly endangering by this strike! Its the Red Cross for petes sake…they are only in it to do good to others!
MsU
Oh for the day we had a Man as President.
Severine Wolfe
Guess if we need blood we will have to come to a Hospital in Texas.
Maybe we should picket the picket lines.
My avatar is the logo for the organization Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO). If you visit the website, http://www.jpfo.org , you will find that although the organization is thus named, membership is open to Jews and non-Jews alike. Further, you will find in its literature and videos concern for all (Jews, Gentiles, black, white, etc) with regards to the loss of the individual right to keep and bear arms.
Your interpretation of my avatar appears to be informed by a fair amount of misperception concerning American Jewry, and Israel's relationship with The USA.
"We real Americans…"
Who would they be? It is interesting your critical comments are prompted by my observation concerning the anti-black racist comments above. Do you exclude not only Jews, but also blacks, from the classification of "real Americans?"
"you should move back to Isreal, LIKE NOW" and "please don't yell me either…"
But it's ok to yell at me? (All caps. Tsk tsk.)
Welcome to BigGovernment, RedWhiteAndJew. Just a heads-up: We have lots of trolls who pose as individuals of one political tilt who are actually those of the opposite. They post rude comments to try to make the limited-gov folks look ignorant (then they run over to Huff n' Puff and get someone to blog about said comments). And for those who aren't posing and are actually writing such comments from their own viewpoint, well, I have no comment…. Take the over the top comments with either a grain of salt or a great deal of suspicion.
By the way, as the author of the article, I can assure you there is no racial element to the story. Your take on that was correct. The photo was one of the only few with a good shot of the actual picket signs and was the only rationale for its particular selection. Anyone who makes anything more of it is sadly missing the point of the article.
Hi libertychick! Thank you for your comments and support. As I said above, I am a relative newcomer to these fora. When I saw the unfortunate number of racist comments on this thread, and a few others, I started to wonder what I had gotten myself into. Now, I think I'll stick around
Thank you for your work. I look forward to future articles.
I don't give a rat's a$$ what their reasoning, blocking the delivery of blood products to a hospital should be prosecuted for interference with medical treatment.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania were badly hurt on 9-11-01 by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the crash of the hijacked plane into the Shanksville field. There was desperate national outpouring of citizens voluntarily standing in lines for hours to make donations of blood to assist with the potential catastrophic needs to treat injuries. Unfortunately, so many were victims of murder rather than patients in the hospitals.
These heavy-handed, Chicago style thug tactics are wearing on our country and are threatening the civil way of life we have grown to expect. In my opinion, this behavior of the union protesters is reprehensible and should absolutely be the FINAL STRAW. We can no longer simply stand idly by as bullies trample the freedoms we are guaranteed. Someone should pursue to the highest level of the court system — or even an amendment to the U.S. Constitution — to prohibit interference by protesters with the coming and going from any establishment. There is a difference between peaceful protest with the guarantee of freedom of speech and the interference of the rights of others to freely pass.
So the thugs are protesting because their working conditions are so bad that they are endangering the blood supply. Soooooo… that bothers them, but endangering lives by blocking blood deliveries does not.
Ok… makes perfect? sense?
Are you the "Rocky Bryan" in this news article?
http://cbs3.com/local/Red.Cross.Strike.2.1347509….
Here is a comment from someone named "labtech."
"The teamsters were only blocking non-emergency vehicles? Sorry, that is b.s. I was working in a Philly hospital lab tonight and had to send a courier to ARC for an emergency shipment of platelets for a patient who was bleedeing to death. But because he was in his private vehicle, I guess the strikers felt it was ok to rock the car and threaten the driver. He ended up leaving without the platelets out of fear for his safety. The platelets were eventually delivered to us by another source. Hopefully the delay in the platelet transfusion doesn't prevent the patient from pulling through. Thanks."
Seems a bit low for union workers. Maybe that's why they're upset.
It's a crime for union workers to earn any less than $30 an hour! /sarc
It is time for Unions to get a wake up call. Most of the males in my extended family are union workers in the Mid-West. Since my childhood, I have noticed a change in attitudes toward the unions. In the past there was a strong sense of allegience to the union, a pervasive sense that the union was indeed looking out for the welfare of it's members. More recently that has changed to alienation. The union members feel out of touch and sense that the unions are no longer looking out for members but for the union as an institution alone. In tough economic times, most feel lucky to have a job. Sacrificing income in tough times for the sake of political maneuvering is nothing but cutting off one's nose to spite the face. So, if they want to strike and make political hay, fine, just let them know that will be considered when they show up in the unemployment lines in a few weeks.
BUMS…WHERE ARE ALL THEIR UNION BROTHER AND SISTERS SUPPORT…HIDING..MORE MONEY FOR LESS WORK..GET RID OF THE UNION ….WEST COAST RED CROSS ARE HAPPY ..POMONA CALIF HAPPY…OAKLAND CALIF .HAPPY..GO BACK TO WORK AND GIVE IN..YOU BUMS
txstrat–
You have expressed exactly how it feels to be in a Union now-a-days. I used to be so Gung Ho myself! Now it seems our Union only cares about its status as a PAC and seems to be willing to hand us over as foot soldiers for whatever the Democrats want. Union meetings, where we had a hall rented for a limited time, were often hi-jacked by people making pro-Gore, Kerry and Obama speeches.
We real Americans know that we aren't doing enough to support our only natural ally in the Middle East and we are tired of the anti-semitics. So head back to the Fatherland, LIKE NOW! Putz.
Sorry, but all I can say is that from March, 1968 until half through April of 1970; I was in Korea and Viet Nam! I felt that the Red Cross was useless and the only agency that I could depend upon was the Salvation Army! I was not out in the field, but I was in Osan and Da Nang. Maybe it was different out in the field, but I can not imagine it!
Ur an idiot to believe that. First off nobody's being blocked or harrassed. Come out to 7th and spring garden. You'll see how nice the guys are on the picket lines. Ur just believing the media. Its true media does influence ur opinion of this situation.
It's past time we put these thugs where they belong. And don't worry SEIU and Teamster punk thugs, what will happen to you will not require " heath insurance " of any kind.
A few points:
1. The comment I quoted was not generated by "the media," simply conveyed through a media outlet. The quote was volunteered in the comment section of the web page.
2. A unionist claim unfair treatment at the hands of an MSM outlet like CBS? Laughable.
3. Are you "Rocky Bryan?"
4. Punctuation, and at least a minimal effort to spell words correctly, greatly enhances your credibility.
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Just proves there are better places to donate to, than the red cross.
I stopped donating anything to the red cross years ago, Found other, and better places to send my money.
These people don't even have enough sense to appreciate that they have a job.
For everyones information! We (Teamster local 929) Did not block the gate for the stat for childrens hospital. He was let out the gate no questions ask. Sorry but if everyone realizes were all the false accusation are coming from,” Red Cross spokesmen.” We are on strike because the red cross doesn’t care about the health of it’s employees. A driver who worked almost 80 plus hours got into an accident because he had fell asleep. When he returned to work the red cross had fired him. They never said that over the news. We knew with the ression we weren’t getting anymore more money. So the rumors of money well that’s not the issue. What is the issue is Red Cross says they gave us a fair contract, Well it was only fair for them to fire staff easier. They didn’t consider anything we asked for to better the safety quality integrity purity potency of our blood supplies , lives of our fellow red cross employees and the lives of the people in the penn-jersey regions. So please before you think we are thugs just doing this to make money your wrong, We aren’t making any money being out of work! I also read that Red Cross can’t believe we went out on strike after only one month of negotiation, Well I got a letter from CEO of Red Cross of the Penn-Jersey regions Bridget O Neil on December 1st that that was her LAST and FINAL proposal. So who is kidding who? Plus yesterday December 14 we went back to the table we asked them to keep the cap on our insurance in exchange we won’t take a raise. Red Cross turned us down again. This strike has nothing to do with money, it has to do with Red Cross coming to the negotiating table but not to negotiate… JUST TO WASTE TIME!!!
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