Posted on 11/27/2019 7:00:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We remember how Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, or the Bronx Evita as my friend Bill Katz calls her, led the campaign to kill an Amazon project in the New York City area.
She killed a few thousand jobs, maybe even more. It was a disaster for workers, but Miss Sandy O got another invitation to MSNBC,
Well, she is back and she is killing jobs again.
Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.
“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com.
“It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model.”
Nice. Very nice. Workers lose jobs and Sandy gets to give a speech.
Over the years, I have supported private industry unions. It's great for workers to unite and get the best deal available. At the same time, sometimes management has to turn to other options to stay in business.
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AOC the Job Jinx
We all know that subcontractors hire illegals.
RE: We all know that subcontractors hire illegals.
Tell AOC that and she might support what he does.
Actually this is just going to cause her base to double-down and say that business needs to be punished for doing this with more regulation.
Blame that sh*t all you want on her. I’m not fan of her. And, yes she is a job killer. But, lets not blame the owner of the business that makes a lot more money paying 1099s, than W4s. No SS tax, no health benefits, nothing.
So, while she is a moron and has no idea what she’s doing, it would appear that the liberal CEO(I’m assuming) of the company saw an opportunity to pocket some more cash and not pay the government.
An acquaintance of mine is in the advertising business. She laments that her dog has health insurance, yet she does not. I’ll go out on a limb and say that the owner of the company that she works for isn’t driving an F250 Diesel and hitting the Georgia woods this fall for some deer meat. And, I’m betting that all the other workers, 10000000000%, did NOT vote for Donald Trump. I know she’s huge AOC fan. And I can confidently say that everyone else in her company trends Left, if not straight up AOC Socialist. Interesting that her boss, everyone should get everything Liberal and I’m oh so compassionate, isn’t willing to give his workers health insurance. Amazingly he keeps his staff below the 50 person, obamacare threshold. Imagine that.
However, for clarification, I do not think companies should be providing employees health insurance, like they do in the current model. I’d rather buy my own so I can take it wherever I go. If the company wanted to help me pay for it, as the President just authorized them to do, I’m all for that. And I should be able to write off those expenses the same way a corporation does.
Having never owned her own business, Little Miss Free Stuff has no idea what her brilliant ideas will result in.
AOC’s best bet is to take off her shirt and go make me a sandwich.
free stuff aoc, I hadn’t missed her the last few months
Actually the company that did this is a hypocrite. They proudly brandished their credentials as a progressive, “Green” company, embracing the ethos of the “Green economy”, as opposed to those evil coal companies, but ended up behaving just like the others.
I’d rather buy my own so I can take it wherever I go.Who's stopping you?
No one, clown. I get it through work. And you’re a dumbass.
Well at least now the employees have an opportunity to pursue new fields of interest as expressed in the past by Nancy Pelosi.
1. Many industries in our modern economy simply don't operate in a business environment that supports this antiquated model with a staff of full-time employees engaged in predictable work flows. I would suspect that this would apply to the advertising business.
2. As an employer, one of the biggest challenges I've faced is that most employees have no idea how much it actually costs to employ them. Take someone who gets paid an annual salary of $80,000 to work in a consulting business (like advertising), for example.
- The employer is immediately on the hook for another $6,540 in Federal payroll taxes, including $4,960 for Social Security (6.2%), $1,160 for Medicare (1.45%), and $420 in Federal unemployment insurance (6% of the first $7,000 in earnings).
- Now take the figure cited in another FR article this morning for medical insurance; if this employee has an employer-paid family insurance plan, that's another $20,000 out of my pocket for this employee.
- Now add in the cost of administering all this crap. If I have to pay $100,000 in overhead costs (between dedicated staff and my own time) to administer this, and I have ten employees, then that's another $10,000 per employee in administrative costs that would be almost non-existent if I didn't have these employees.
3. Add the numbers up. In this example, it costs more than $116,000 to pay an employee $80,000. And that doesn't even take into account any other discretionary benefits that I may offer to the employees.
And keep in mind that the medical insurance coverage is typically the least predictable overhead cost the employer incurs. These plans are priced annually, the premiums escalate dramatically every year, and there's simply no way in hell for an employer to do any long-term business planning based on these unknown costs in the future.
This is EXACTLY why I hire only part-time staff and 1099 contractors in my line of work.
P.S. -- How does your acquaintance's dog have health insurance, if she does not?
Alberta’s Child, I’m not arguing one thing you wrote. And I was going to give a lengthy response and a question or two, but I’m not.
Everything you wrote can be solved with two words .... Free Market
If you want to provide some type of benefit for your employees, etc go ahead. You want to provide them health insurance, go ahead. You don’t want to, don’t. And I’m not being condescending when I say that. I’m not a class warfare person. You own the business, run it the way you want. Your business plan will either succeed or fail, right? And that is what it’s all about. And that’s good.
But, I think everything you documented, is born in some form or fashion from government intervention and businesses being forced to do this or that. And then, the businesses are able to go to Congress, get a carve out specific to them, that isn’t allowed to be used by the individual. And it doesn’t just go for the private sector.
As for my acquaintance’s dog, she pays for it to have pet insurance.
On a side note, AOC, who i’m not a fan of by any stretch, gets a lot of blame for Amazon. I’m sure there was more to Bezos’ decision than just her running her mouth. I’d bet that there were quite a few “community and civic leaders” starting to show up with their hands out and Bezos finally said....the hell with this place, I’m out.
Alberta’s Child, I’m not arguing one thing you wrote. And I was going to give a lengthy response and a question or two, but I’m not.
Everything you wrote can be solved with two words .... Free Market
If you want to provide some type of benefit for your employees, etc go ahead. You want to provide them health insurance, go ahead. You don’t want to, don’t. And I’m not being condescending when I say that. I’m not a class warfare person. You own the business, run it the way you want. Your business plan will either succeed or fail, right? And that is what it’s all about. And that’s good.
But, I think everything you documented, is born in some form or fashion from government intervention and businesses being forced to do this or that. And then, the businesses are able to go to Congress, get a carve out specific to them, that isn’t allowed to be used by the individual. And it doesn’t just go for the private sector.
As for my acquaintance’s dog, she pays for it to have pet insurance.
On a side note, AOC, who i’m not a fan of by any stretch, gets a lot of blame for Amazon. I’m sure there was more to Bezos’ decision than just her running her mouth. I’d bet that there were quite a few “community and civic leaders” starting to show up with their hands out and Bezos finally said....the hell with this place, I’m out.
Bernie is openly campaigning on “EVERY job in America should be unionized”.
Tom Steyer is saying: “Restore Organized Labor Force”==UNIONS
I belonged to 5 different unions when I was much younger-—had to to get the job. I saw thuggery-—intimidation-—and downright lying about a ‘strike’ we voted down, but the union told the 11 O’Clock news that we voted to strike.
I crossed the picket lines of a wildcat strike by the meat cutters in a grocery chain & saw the union thug try to intimidate every single girl working the check stands.
He demanded my name & where I was from. I told him “Peter Pan from The Land of Nod”. He got pretty lippy with me, but I handed it all back to him in spades. I told all the other girls that “You have to put food on your table. The union will provide ZERO to you for that need. This dude trying to get your information is wearing a $500 suit (late 60’s) and $300 shoes. Do NOT answer his questions & DO NOT leave your check stand.”
When I got back to my regular store later that night, my bosses told me that the whole city—Los Angeles—had heard bout me driving that union punk out the door.....Felt good.
Unionizing the USA will be a death blow to the country. The days of the need to unionize are long gone.
IMO, SEIU union has at least 30% +++ illegals in their ranks.
She laments that her dog has health insurance, yet she does not.
I will bet an ice cream bar that HER DOG DID NOT purchase that ‘health insurance’ by itself. The woman did that. I think alot of my animals-—horses AND dogs, but none have health insurance. I have a good vet & I know how to diagnose & treat many horse items by myself. Panic is left out of the equation.
I also agree that companies should NOT be providing health insurance. The company & the provider set the standards, and if the employee bought their own, they could make their own choices.
I have been self-employed since 1980. NO benefits-—NO paid vacations-—NO paid holidays-—Increase in pay when I decided & no OVERTIME pay for all the hours I worked overtime.
I had my own health insurance with State Farm-—until I turned 55 & they raised my premium from about $240 a month to over $560 a month. I told the agent that I was “Just as healthy the day before I turned 55 as the day after I turned 55”. She said there wasn’t anything she could do. I dropped the policy & went until age 65 without ANY insurance. Only have Part A Medicare, also, and am now 80.
Retired, except for 1 client ( have done his bookkeeping for over 50 years) and don’t even make enough SS to file income tax return. I also wished to take my health insurance wherever I moved... and I did move-—completely out of California. YEAH!!!
I am sure some bartenders are smart. Not this bartender. she’s one of the dumb ones.
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