Hi RonG
Your earlier post and this one makes great points but I am still thinking about
it.
Thanks for the great info.
Stan the independent man
-----Original Message-----
From: R George <xgeorge@xxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Oct 24, 2016 9:31 am
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Fwd: If you HATE UNIONS then by all means - vote
for TRUMP
GM Stan,
Trump refuses to release his tax returns saying it is because he is
under IRS audit - why? Buffett who is 20 times as rich as Trump released his
tax returns
and he also is under audit. I mailed my early voting ballot this
weekend. 100% PRO-UNION. I do not forget how I came to have a great life.
Look at all
the Republican politicians who have turned against Trump. He is a joke!
Can't focus in a debate. Now it is looking like my state (Arizona) which
ALWAYS votes
Republican is going to vote for Hillary - again why? Because normal
people want a smart person who can control their emotions on the Nuclear
button.
AND women want to control their own bodies, not have some old white guys
controlling their reproductive rights.
RonG
On 10/23/2016 11:24 AM, (Redacted sender sblumen123 for DMARC) wrote:
R George
Wowee, I must have been asleep at the switch? Just found it checking
emails, worth repeating.
Surprised Hilary didn't press more on Donald's bankruptcies and
stiffing vendors and regular
workers? Might change my mind voting for him as too selfish?
Stan
-----Original Message-----
From: R George <xgeorge@xxxxxxx>
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Sent: Wed, Oct 19, 2016 10:56 am
Subject: [sparkscoffee] If you HATE UNIONS then by all means
- vote for TRUMP
Donald Trump has admitted before that when he has a choice
between union
and nonunion labor for his construction projects, he'd go
with nonunion
labor. Just how often was that? A new report from the
Electrical Workers
(IBEW) reveals some figures about his dealings with IBEW
contractors.
From the IBEW investigation:
A review of the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee's projects
reveals that he hires union when project labor agreements or
dominant
market share forces him to. But more than 60% of his
projects developed
outside New York City and Atlantic City—which includes most
of his
recent projects—were built nonunion. When you exclude
developments with
project labor agreements, that number jumps to nearly 80%
built nonunion.
Except for his own house.
Trump has developed or licensed his name to eight projects
in Florida,
for example. The only one using IBEW workers is his palatial
home and
private club in Palm Beach. "For everything he sold to other
people, he
went nonunion. But for his house, he went with us," said
IBEW Local 728
Business Manager Dan Svetlick. Svetlick says it's something
he's seen
with other billionaires like Trump. When it comes to their
own homes or
the homes of their family members, "They want that to last,"
he said.
Here are 10 other key facts from the IBEW report:
1. According to analysis of lawsuits filed against him and
his
companies, when union contractors were hired, Trump
developed a
reputation for stiffing some, delaying payment to others and
shorting
workers on overtime and even minimum wage.
2. USA Today found 60 lawsuits against Trump for not paying
his bills on
time, including by a dishwasher in Florida, a New Jersey
glass company,
a carpet supplier, plumber, painters, 48 waiters, dozens of
bartenders
and a real estate broker.
3. Trump has been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor
Standards Act.
4. Trump-associated properties and companies have filed for
bankruptcy
often: Trump Taj Mahal (1991), Trump Plaza and Trump Marina
(1993),
Trump World's Fair and Casino (1999), Trump Hotels &
Casino Resorts
(2004) and Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009). In each of
the
bankruptcies, unpaid contractors were sent to the back of
the line for
repayment and often received only pennies on the dollar for
what they
were owed.
5. Lawyers who represented Trump in lawsuits for non-payment
sued Trump
for not paying them.
6. Since 1980, more than 200 mechanic's liens have been
filed against
Trump properties for nonpayment.
7. According to former Trump Plaza President Jack O’Connell,
Trump would
negotiate the best price he could, but when it came time to
pay the
bills, Trump would say: "I'm going to pay you, but I'm going
to pay you
75% of what we agreed to." It was known as the "Trump
discount,"
according to The Wall Street Journal.
8. Trump continues to stonewall unionized casino and
culinary employees
looking for their first contract at the Trump International
Hotel in Las
Vegas.
9. Most of Trump's recent projects have been in anti-union
and "right to
work" states. Where the law is different, his choices are
different:
"For every union-built development outside of New York and
Atlantic
City, Trump built nearly two nonunion, and if there is no
PLA, Trump has
hired union workers once for every four projects that go
nonunion."
10. Trump Tower, where he announced his presidential
campaign, was built
on a site cleared by undocumented immigrant laborers from
Poland. A
lawsuit was filed against Trump that dragged on for nearly
two
decades—he didn't reach a settlement with the working people
who did the
job until 19 years later. The U.S. District Court for the
Southern
District of New York wrote: "No records were kept, no Social
Security or
other taxes were withheld, and they were not paid in
accordance with
wage laws. They were told they would be paid $4.00 or in
some cases
$5.00 an hour for working 12-hour shifts seven days a week.
In fact,
they were paid irregularly and incompletely, sometimes with
[the
subcontractor’s] personal checks, which were returned by the
bank for
insufficient funds." Employees complained to the press of
working in
"choking clouds of asbestos dust without protective
equipment." The
District Court concluded that Trump "knew the Polish workers
were
working 'off the books,' that they were doing demolition
work, that they
were nonunion, that they were paid substandard wages with no
overtime
pay and that they were paid irregularly if at all."
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/When-Donald-Trump-Had-a-Choice-He-Chose-Nonunion-Labor-for-His-Construction-Projects-with-IBEW
