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County orders union boss to work, citing new law
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| June 8, 2015 - 3:02pmUpdated June 8, 2015 - 6:30pm
| By BEN BOTKIN
Posted on 06/09/2015 12:05:01 PM PDT by redreno
Clark County management has ordered Martin Bassick, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 1107, to report for work at a county job in a move that reflects the countys interpretation of a new state law concerning paid leave for union representatives.
The countys human resources department notified Bassick in a letter Thursday to report at his county public works job at 8 a.m. Monday, according to correspondence obtained by the Review-Journal. The letter cites a bill that the Legislature passed this session and Gov. Brian Sandoval signed into law. An attorney for the SEIU, the countys largest union, disputes the countys interpretation of the law and has requested negotiations with the county to resolve the matter.
Bassick confirmed Monday that he reported to his job as a plans checker for public works as instructed, speaking to a Review-Journal reporter while on his lunch break.
I just received this letter out of the blue, Bassick said, adding that no one from the county talked to him before he received it.
County spokeswoman Stacey Welling declined to comment Monday.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: clarkcounty; corruption; gettowork; govtabuse; nevada; noshowjob; seiu; taxes; unionthug
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:05:01 PM PDT
by
redreno
To: redreno
Oh how dreadful, an honest day’s work!
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:06:32 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Lurker
I am sure that he has not the slightest idea about actually working. Hating your boss is s full time job, you know.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:11:45 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: redreno
I have this mental image of Maynard G. Krebs...
4
posted on
06/09/2015 12:12:03 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
I was thinking Al Sharpton...
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:14:10 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Lurker
Don't be silly. There was no requirement for "an honest day's work". They were required to simply SHOW UP. :)
I don't believe those SEIU thugs would know an honest day's work if it bit them on the butt.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:17:02 PM PDT
by
TxAg1981
To: redreno
LOL! The president of the SEIU collective has to actually work? Do something productive?
HOORAY Nevada legislature and Brian Sandoval.
Now states
go ahead and ask POSOTUS to work
to do something productive
not underhanded, opaque, deceptive.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:25:58 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: redreno
I sure am glad Virginia does not allow public employee unions.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:30:19 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: redreno
Notice the SEIU attorney is “requesting Negotiations”, not “Filing a lawsuit”?
“We’ll trade you half of the next scheduled union employee wage increase, if he is available for the 2016 Democrat Campaign.”
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:30:52 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: tcrlaf
Negotiating what, special treatment? The law is the law. "Negotiating" around that used to be called bribery.
-PJ
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:35:20 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: redreno
The last SEIU 1107 President “Gifted” a bunch of “Paid Compensatory Time” to his top staffers, totaling around $48,000 in Union funds, just after his election defeat.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:36:21 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: Political Junkie Too
“Negotiating what, special treatment? The law is the law. “Negotiating” around that used to be called bribery.”
That was in the old America.
This is the new “Fundamentally-Transformed” Amerika.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:37:31 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: WayneS
I didn’t know that, good for Virginia.
To: redreno
I am really surprised, if any city is worse than Las Vegas for union thugery, I don’t know what it is. Just try to be an exhibitor at a convention there. You can’t pick up a screwdriver or plug something in with out a union “craft person” and their minder.
To: redreno
SEIU attorney Michael Urban said the countys letter demanding Bassicks return to the county workplace is unreasonable, LOL. I'm surprised he didn't claim cruel and unusual punishment too.
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posted on
06/09/2015 1:21:57 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: redreno
I understand a working lead man but not a working foreman/supervisor. Yes, lead men are supervisors so to speak but that is not like a foreman/supervisor.Looking forward to non blue collar workers and their comments.
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posted on
06/09/2015 1:31:16 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Cruz for steam in 2016)
To: Army Air Corps; All
I have this mental image of Maynard G. Krebs...
I was thinking Al Sharpton
Somehow an image of Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront springs to mind!
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posted on
06/09/2015 2:23:33 PM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: WayneS
Too bad they don’t allow federal employee unions. No difference.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I wonder what state he lives in? And to whom he kicks back part of his pay? Thanks redreno.
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posted on
06/09/2015 2:42:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: redreno
This guy is the president of the local union shop and is expected to work? Wow. I was in a union years ago. “The Int’l Hod Carriers and Common building Laborers union” or something like that. The shop steward was a sneaky. slick downed guy that also ran the numbers racket on the job site.
My impression of ALL union officials is that they are pukes that live off the labors of the members.
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posted on
06/09/2015 2:56:00 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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