When WI Gov. Walker picked a fight with working people, Pittsburg hip hop artist Jasiri X went to Madison, worked his way into the mob of 70,000, and shot this video for his latest protest song, “American Workers vs Multi-Billionaires.” Jasiri X will be in LA on March 26 to perform the song!
Jasiri X is a Pittsburgh hip hop artist who became nationally known in 2007, with the song “Free the Jena Six.” The song was named 2007 Hip Hop Political Song of the Year and quickly galvanized the community in support of the youth unlawfully incarcerated in Jena, LA. Jasiri is president of LYRICS, Inc. (Leading Young Rappers In Career Success) and a founding member of One HOOD, an organization of men working against violence in black communities.
Courtesy of Barbara Maynard~Facebook~ "Our Communities/Our Jobs"
GCC/IBT Local 140-N Blog
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Come March with Teamster General President Hoffa
This is a very important time to stand up and get involved!
Please click any where in this paragraph to contact me to say you will join the thousands of Teamsters, Teachers, Longshoremen, Ironworkers, Electricians, Nurses,Utility Workers,and many other respectable Union Trades and Professions that have already committed to make this event a success and more importantly, effective!March 26 Rally
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
STOP THE ATTACK ON AMERICAN WORKERS RIGHTS!
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I just signed a petition that will be hand-delivered next TUESDAY. Please add your name : http://www.ourfuture.org/
The petition is on irrational, insane cuts. Some of our lawmakers on Capitol Hill are in a race to see who can propose more government spending cuts, whether the cuts make sense or not.
Instead of creating good jobs, anti-worker legislators in Congress want to go after hundreds of thousands of jobs. Their plans to freeze pay for federal workers and proposals to cut and eliminate jobs, pensions and health care benefits are political grandstanding, period.
If you agree that slashing middle-class jobs, pay and benefits is not the way out of a deep recession and that we need more good jobs, not fewer, to fix our economy, please sign the petition, which will be delivered next Tuesday:
http://www.ourfuture.org/
IN SOLIDARITY,
Ronnie Pineda
President,
GCC/IBT Local 140-N
Friday, February 11, 2011
Courtesy of Brother Banuelos
Might want to share with others, to help those that need to save their homes. This article was in the news today. 2-10-2011
If you or someone you know is in or facing forclosure; the link below may provide valuable financial assistance.
Follow The Rules.
- STOP HANGING ROLLS BY YOURSELF! It is very dangerous and it is a practice that must stop! This practice also misleads management into thinking that we have ample staffing to line-up and keep the presses running. This is also why management assigns the reel room workers three RTP's and then expect you to perform quickly, safely and flawlessly. Hang rolls with a partner and don't hang it until you have one, you cannot be diciplined for following safety protocols. Proctect yourself and your co-workers! Management is not telling anyone to hang rolls by themself, but they're not tripping over eachother to stop those that do from doing so. STOP IT NOW BEFORE SOMEONE GETS SERIOUSLY INJURED....OR WORSE.
- DO NOT BEGIN WORKING PRIOR TO YOUR SHIFT START TIME. The company is not going to accept liability for any injuries that are sustained before you are scheduled to begin working and also because you're not getting paid for it.
- TAKE YOUR FULL BREAKS AND LUNCHES. You have the legal right to these rest and meal periods and should not miss them for ANY reason! It is your responsibility to take your breaks; if taking your break creates an unsafe situation such as leaving your partner in the reelroom by themself to work alone,then supervision MUST be notified of the unsafe condition it would cause. The company must pay employees an hour penalty for all missed breaks and lunches; missing them is actually taking money out of your own pocket!
- TAKE SAFES WHEN PLATING UP, STRIPPING OR WASHING BLANKETS, DO NOT SPEED WASH. These are the easiest ways to get injured and the easiest way to get written up! Whats the hurry? Haste makes waste and mistakes!
- CHECK YOUR LINEUPS, AVOID TRANSPOSING PLATES. This is by far the most common error that puts you on managements radar and is no longer accepted as "human error". Regardless of the fact that each pressperson is now responsible for hanging approximately twice the amount of plates per run than you did just 5 years ago, you are 100% accountable and will be dinged or worse if you continually transpose! Check, double check and then check again before you hang it.
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| SHOULDN'T BE PAINFUL! |
In Solidarity,
President, Ronnie Pineda
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Are you getting your breaks ?
In California, the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders require that employers must authorize and permit nonexempt employees to take a rest period that must, insofar as practicable, be taken in the middle of each work period. The rest period is based on the total hours worked daily and must be at the minimum rate of a net ten consecutive minutes for each four hour work period, or major fraction thereof. The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) considers anything more than two hours to be a "major fraction" of four." A rest period is not required for employees whose total daily work time is less than three and one-half hours. The rest period is counted as time worked and therefore, the employer must pay for such periods. Since employees are paid for their rest periods, they can be required to remain on the employer's premises during such periods. With respect to the taking of rest periods, an exception exists under IWC Order 5-2001, Section 12(C) for certain employees of 24-hour residential care facilities who may have their rest period limited under certain circumstances. Another exception to the general rest period requirement is for swimmers, dancers, skaters, and other performers engaged in strenuous physical activities who shall have additional interim rest periods during periods of actual rehearsal or shooting. IWC Order 12-2001, Section 12 (C).
For employees in certain on-site occupations in the construction, drilling, logging and mining industries, the employer may stagger the rest periods to avoid interruption in the flow of work and to maintain continuous operations, or schedule rest periods to coincide with breaks in the flow of work that occur in the course of the workday. IWC Order 16-2001, Section 11(A) Additionally, for these employees rest periods need not be authorized in limited circumstances when the disruption of continuous operations would jeopardize the product or process of the work. However, under such circumstances, the employer must make-up the missed rest period within the same workday or compensate the employee for the missed ten minutes of rest time at his or her regular rate of pay within the same pay period. IWC Order 16-2001, Section 11(B) Under Order 16-2001, rest periods must take place at employer designated areas which may include or be limited to the employees immediate work area. See Question No. 9, below, for information on how to file a claim to require your employer to provide time and a place to express milk.
Under IWC Order 10-2001, Section12(C), a crew member employed on a commercial passenger fishing boat who is on an overnight trip shall receive no less than eight hours off-duty time during each 24-hour period. This eight-hour period is in addition to the meal and rest periods required under the Wage Order.
Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1030 every employer, including the state and any political subdivision, must provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk for the employee's infant child. The break time shall, if possible, run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee. Break time for an employee that does not run concurrently with the rest time authorized for the employee by the applicable wage order of the Industrial Welfare Commission need not be paid. The employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room or other location, other than a toilet stall, in close proximity to the employee's work area, for the employee to express milk in private. The room or location may include the place where the employee normally works if it otherwise meets the requirements of this section. An employer is not required to provide an employee break time for purposes of lactating if to do so would seriously disrupt the operations of the employer.
If an employer fails to provide an employee a rest period in accordance with an applicable IWC Order, the employer shall pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of pay for each workday that the rest period is not provided. Labor Code Section 226.7 Thus, if an employer does not provide all of the rest periods required in a workday, the employee is entitled to one additional hour of pay for that workday, not one additional hour of pay for each rest period that was not provided during that workday.
The rest period is defined as a "net" ten minutes, which means that the rest period begins when the employee reaches an area away from the work area that is appropriate for rest. Employers are required to provide suitable resting facilities that shall be available for employees during working hours in an area separate from the toilet rooms.
For employees in certain on-site occupations in the construction, drilling, logging and mining industries, the employer may stagger the rest periods to avoid interruption in the flow of work and to maintain continuous operations, or schedule rest periods to coincide with breaks in the flow of work that occur in the course of the workday. IWC Order 16-2001, Section 11(A) Additionally, for these employees rest periods need not be authorized in limited circumstances when the disruption of continuous operations would jeopardize the product or process of the work. However, under such circumstances, the employer must make-up the missed rest period within the same workday or compensate the employee for the missed ten minutes of rest time at his or her regular rate of pay within the same pay period. IWC Order 16-2001, Section 11(B) Under Order 16-2001, rest periods must take place at employer designated areas which may include or be limited to the employees immediate work area. See Question No. 9, below, for information on how to file a claim to require your employer to provide time and a place to express milk.
Under IWC Order 10-2001, Section12(C), a crew member employed on a commercial passenger fishing boat who is on an overnight trip shall receive no less than eight hours off-duty time during each 24-hour period. This eight-hour period is in addition to the meal and rest periods required under the Wage Order.
Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1030 every employer, including the state and any political subdivision, must provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk for the employee's infant child. The break time shall, if possible, run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee. Break time for an employee that does not run concurrently with the rest time authorized for the employee by the applicable wage order of the Industrial Welfare Commission need not be paid. The employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room or other location, other than a toilet stall, in close proximity to the employee's work area, for the employee to express milk in private. The room or location may include the place where the employee normally works if it otherwise meets the requirements of this section. An employer is not required to provide an employee break time for purposes of lactating if to do so would seriously disrupt the operations of the employer.
If an employer fails to provide an employee a rest period in accordance with an applicable IWC Order, the employer shall pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of pay for each workday that the rest period is not provided. Labor Code Section 226.7 Thus, if an employer does not provide all of the rest periods required in a workday, the employee is entitled to one additional hour of pay for that workday, not one additional hour of pay for each rest period that was not provided during that workday.
The rest period is defined as a "net" ten minutes, which means that the rest period begins when the employee reaches an area away from the work area that is appropriate for rest. Employers are required to provide suitable resting facilities that shall be available for employees during working hours in an area separate from the toilet rooms.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
San Antonio Openings Update
I asked Brother Benito in San Antonio if he could provide specific information regarding the "Sub" positions that are still available should any former L.A. Times pressmen or women wish to relocate. The following information will help your decision if you are interested, here is Brother Benito's response,
Brother Ron,
I hope this helps:
contact number is 210-250-3676,
fax 210-250-3677,
email jcoates@express-news.net
Ben Ramirez
210-833-7754
fax 210-437-0171
Brother Ron,
I hope this helps:
- The future for permanent employment is possible.
- Hourly wages is $22.22 per hour days $22.43 nights.
- The amount of weekly shifts is 3 to 5 shifts. Average is 3 shifts.
- There is a maximum amount of hours that subs are allowed to work for the year.
- Substitutes earn one day of vacation for each 25 shifts worked the prior year.
- A shift consist of 7 1/2 hours.
- 2 subs are to be elevated to full-time status this month.
contact number is 210-250-3676,
fax 210-250-3677,
email jcoates@express-news.net
Ben Ramirez
210-833-7754
fax 210-437-0171
Friday, December 17, 2010
BONE-US BONUS!
and still thinks all of you are overpaid!
ALL OF THIS MONEY SHOULD BE USED TO BUILD A PRISON TO HOUSE ALL OF THESE THIEVES INSTEAD OF REWARDING THEMSELVES FOR RUINING THE LIVES, FAMILIES AND CAREERS OF HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF HARDWORKING MEN AND WOMEN THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO OWN THIS BANKRUPT INSTITUTION.
DENNIS FITZSIMONS AND SAM ZELL SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE THE EXECUTIVES OF ENRON AND PROSECUTED FOR THEIR BLATENT FIDUCIARY IRRESPONSIBILTY AND FOR ORCHESTRATING THE PRIVATIZATION FIASCO THAT LED TO THE DEMISE OF TRIBUNE'S FINANCIAL HOLDINGS.
THE "LOVE" OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Job Openings in San Antonio
Ron;
Is there any web offset pressmen in LA that may want to work in San Antonio? Glen Couch from LA is working at the San Antonio, Express-News as a supervisor.
There is work for subs here in San Antonio. We need people to work ASAP. If anyone is interested please contact me.
Ben Ramirez
President
GCC/IBT LU 737N
210-833-7754
Is there any web offset pressmen in LA that may want to work in San Antonio? Glen Couch from LA is working at the San Antonio, Express-News as a supervisor.
There is work for subs here in San Antonio. We need people to work ASAP. If anyone is interested please contact me.
Ben Ramirez
President
GCC/IBT LU 737N
210-833-7754
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