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NCCI Changes Position, Gives Employee Flags
NCCI Web Site ^ | 9/17/01

Posted on 09/17/2001 11:50:12 AM PDT by Crusher138

NCCI Changes Position, Gives Employees American Flags

(Boca Raton, FL) NCCI Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has changed its position on flags in its workplace and offered any employees who wanted them American flags and red-white-and-blue lapel ribbons as they entered the workplace this morning.

President & CEO Bill Schrempf said he was meeting with employees this morning to explain the company's change and apologize for not permitting them to display the American flag on Friday during the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance.

In announcing the change, Schrempf indicated that NCCI's senior management team met over the weekend and decided to reverse the company's longstanding position, which had been intended to protect employees.

This morning, the company took the following actions concerning the display of the American flag by its employees:

1. Any interested employee can display an American flag on their desktop. Flags will be provided for this purpose, if employees would like to have one to display.

2. Red, white & blue lapel remembrance ribbons are being provided for those who want to wear them.

For general NCCI information, contact Michael Bullard, Chief Communications Officer, 561-893-2080, or Greg Quinn, Media Relations Coordinator, at 607-723-7878.


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Talk about backpeddling. A serious PR nightmare.

Too bad for them it won't get as much publicity as the original ban.

Idiots.

1 posted on 09/17/2001 11:50:13 AM PDT by Crusher138
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To: Crusher138
Managed by confused Florida voters?. . .
2 posted on 09/17/2001 11:58:21 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: Crusher138
Wonder if they got one or two emails and phonecalls?? (hee,hee)
3 posted on 09/17/2001 11:58:36 AM PDT by mdittmar
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To: Crusher138
Good. I'm glad they came to their senses--due in large measure, I'm sure, to the good FReeping we gave them.

Time to call off the hounds now.

4 posted on 09/17/2001 12:22:04 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Crusher138
NCCI's senior management team met over the weekend and decided to reverse the company's longstanding position,

It does not count if you need your backsides roasted to make you do it!!!

5 posted on 09/17/2001 12:23:04 PM PDT by truth_eagle
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They showed their true colors with their first decision, what they do now is retreating.
6 posted on 09/17/2001 12:34:10 PM PDT by TroutStalker
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mmmm... maybe one or two THOUSAND.

I know that at least 50 people on my contact list emailed them and let them know their outrage.
I can only imagine that a few thousand FReepers did the same.

7 posted on 09/17/2001 12:57:21 PM PDT by visagoth
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I very much agree. It's one thing to do the right thing of your own accord. It's another to have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing. NCCI did the latter, so they suck no matter what.
8 posted on 09/17/2001 3:57:08 PM PDT by Hillary 666
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This is an e-mail I received from one of there executives.

After I had sent each one of their executives two pictures of a Flag.

If a few more did that, could have crapped out their mail servers.

Not I am not reformatting it. Tain't worth the effort from this people.

NCCI reversed its longstanding policy over the weekend. See note below. Media Release (Embedded image moved to file: pic18429.jpg) URGENT?NEWS FLASH September 17, 2001 NCCI Changes Position, Gives Employees American Flags (Boca Raton, FL) NCCI Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has changed its position on flags in its workplace and offered any employees who wanted them American flags and red-white-and-blue lapel ribbons as they entered the workplace this morning. President & CEO Bill Schrempf said he was meeting with employees this morning to explain the company's change and apologize for not permitting them to display the American flag on Friday during the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. In announcing the change, Schrempf indicated that NCCI's senior management team met over the weekend and decided to reverse the company's longstanding position, which had been intended to protect employees. This morning, the company took the following actions concerning the display of the American flag by its employees: 1. Any interested employee can display an American flag on their desktop. Flags will be provided for this purpose, if employees would like to have one to display. 2. Red, white & blue lapel remembrance ribbons are being provided for those who want to wear them. -more- For general NCCI information, contact Michael Bullard, Chief Communications Officer, 561-893-2080, or Greg Quinn, Media Relations Coordinator, at 607-723-7878. -------------------- NCCI, a shared-services organization serving the workers compensation industry, offers a comprehensive array of products and services that enable insurers and other stakeholders to access and use workers compensation data to establish accurate loss costs, calculate experience rating modifications, manage residual market mechanisms and reduce overall costs.

9 posted on 09/17/2001 4:29:01 PM PDT by dts32041
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To: Crusher138
E.D. on Fox and Friends let'em have it this morning...LOL both barrells!!
10 posted on 09/17/2001 4:31:23 PM PDT by Wild Game
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They must have read my e-mail(ha). (Our e-mails.)
11 posted on 09/17/2001 4:31:29 PM PDT by FReethesheeples
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Hey, I saw that on Fox 'n' Friends, too! I hope every NCCI employee saw it on TV before heading out to work. Nah, they were watching the Communist News Network.
12 posted on 09/17/2001 4:41:54 PM PDT by Hillary 666
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