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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 08:16 PM Aug 2019

Workers at Shell plant told they would not get paid unless they attended Trump's speech: report

Published 4 hours ago
on August 16, 2019

By Brad Reed

A new report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette claims that workers at Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical plant in Beaver County this week were told that they had to attend President Donald Trump’s speech on energy if they wanted to be paid.

In a memo to union employees obtained by the Post-Gazette, Shell informed workers that their “attendance is not mandatory,” but said that if they did not attend the rally, they would have to take a day off without getting paid.

According to the Post-Gazette, workers were to show up no later than 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning this week, where they were to get their identity cards scanned and would then have to wait in line for hours before the president’s speech.

“NO SCAN, NO PAY,” Shell informed the workers.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/workers-at-shell-plant-told-they-would-not-get-paid-unless-they-attended-trumps-speech-report/

Just leave your rights at the work door...............................but have a "paid training day" to hear a malignant psychopath.

I just gotta ask, how does Shell put that in your file........................if you don't show up...................with this basic mandatory bullshit..............

This "guy" has about as much respect for workers.....................as the illegals that he hired for his golf courses, and the families he stiff's out of contracts.....................................

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Workers at Shell plant told they would not get paid unless they attended Trump's speech: report (Original Post) turbinetree Aug 2019 OP
Ali Veshi is covering this on All In at this moment. Eugene Aug 2019 #1
I would have turned my back on him...............................then what would Shell do........... turbinetree Aug 2019 #2
Probably not much..... A HERETIC I AM Aug 2019 #3
And, then there is this tidbit of information...and I went through the carpenters apprenticeship turbinetree Aug 2019 #4
Thanks for that link....... A HERETIC I AM Aug 2019 #5
Yes he is lying sack of piece of shit turbinetree Aug 2019 #7
Trump took credit for Obama policy. Kid Berwyn Aug 2019 #6
The asshole president SpankMe Aug 2019 #8

Eugene

(61,899 posts)
1. Ali Veshi is covering this on All In at this moment.
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 08:19 PM
Aug 2019

No yelling, protesting... or anything showing resistance will be tolerated.

EDIT: corrected name of show

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
2. I would have turned my back on him...............................then what would Shell do...........
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 08:24 PM
Aug 2019

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)
3. Probably not much.....
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 08:29 PM
Aug 2019

because damned few were/are actual employees of Shell Oil.

This site is under construction, so the vast majority of the people there work in the trades, like Steamfitters, Pipefitters and Electricians and are working for contractors building the facility.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)
5. Thanks for that link.......
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 09:34 PM
Aug 2019

There's one statement that just BLARES out at you!;




“I love the unions and I love the workers,” Trump said. “And, you know, when I built buildings in New York … I built them exclusively with unions. People don't understand that. I was exclusive.”


Except he doesn't, the lying sack of shit;

https://democracyjournal.org/briefing-book/the-myth-of-a-pro-union-trump/

https://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/
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