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MGM CEO gets $500,000 raise, performance incentives
Friday, April 10, 2009 | 7:23 p.m.
Jim Murren
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Under a new employment contract effective Dec. 1, MGM Mirage Chief Executive Jim Murren will receive a salary increase of $500,000 and will be eligible for additional performance-based cash awards of up to $4.25 million.
Murren's new base salary of $2 million reflects the fact that he took on additional responsibilities when he was appointed to lead the company, MGM Mirage spokesman Alan Feldman said.
Murren replaced Terry Lanni as chairman and CEO on Dec. 1 after Lanni said he was stepping down to spend more time with his family. Lanni's retirement coincided with doubts about the veracity of his resume.
MGM Mirage has not appointed a president and chief operating officer to replace Murren.
Lanni earned a base salary of $2 million at MGM Mirage, as well as several million dollars' worth of incentive payments.
The new agreement calls for Murren to receive a severance payment of $7 million if he is terminated or if the company changes hands.
Murren also receives 2 million stock options that expire in seven years under an amended 2005 incentive plan. The options, called stock appreciation rights, vest over a period of four years at strike prices of $8 and $17 per share, separately.
Like any other executive at MGM Mirage, Murren – who will not be receiving a bonus for 2008 – is eligible to receive a performance-based bonus for 2009. Whether he receives that bonus is up to the Compensation Committee of the company's board of directors. The committee's performance criteria are subject to change.
The new employment agreement expires April 7, 2013 and replaces a 2005 contract that would have expired Jan. 4, 2010.
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It's been a while since I took an economics class, but I seem to recall that, in theory, one's salary is commensurate to his marginal productivity to the firm.
So I ask what is Mr. Murren's contribution to MGM Mirage that justifies such compensation? I'm not being rhetorical. I really want to know.
I will say this, though. Being an executive really has less to do with one's innovation and creativity, than his aptitude for glad-handing and shameless sycophancy. He ascends the ranks while appropriately the ideas of those beneath him until he reaches the summit.
This is not cast a wide net over all executives. Those who actually created something that has generated oodles of cash, like Google's Page and Brin, deserve the recompense for which they're worthy. I'd even argue that before he ran his company into the ground, the bilious Sheldon Adelson deserved his returns.
But I'm just fed up by these obsequious bums who've done nothing truly productive and their inflated sense of entitlement.
What a joke. I refuse to spend any money there, not going to feed that fatcat
Only a $500,000 salary increase to $2 million with up to $4.25 million in performance incentives for the Chief?
Damn, times ARE tough at MGM Mirage.
LOL
I cant believe that MGM board of directors could reward someone who is presiding over imminent bankruptcy and the essential stealing of money from bondholders and banks.
I think it is up to MGM board to deal with issues like this, but it is up to ME to be a customer of a company that has its head up its ***. No wonder they are nearly bankrupt !!!!
Okay, so this guy was the architect of City Center that was a gross miscalculation and is leading MGM to bankruptcy. And he is rewarded with millions of dollars??? This is surely what is wrong with America and people like him are the reason average folks in this country are sick and tired of incompetent ceos...........
I cant wait to see this hit across the country. MGM S stock is gonna tank in the publics eyes! and that go s with all there other properties too. As far as im concerned none of there properties even exsit to me anymore! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.............
It is interesting that Mr. Murren is receiving an increase in his salary while salaried employees have had their raises repealed and hourly employees will not be receiving a raise in 2009. What also caught my attention was the $7 million pay out if Murren is terminated or if the company is sold. Did any of the employees laid-off receive a dime? I don't think so.
DISGUSTING AND CRIMINAL (Of course he'll make sure the company gets sold in a year or two so he can collect his 7MIL)
The MGM board is uber dumb. They cry to the workers to cut their salaries and then give rewards such as this. Oh yes, lets give these corporations more of a tax cut so they can pay the managers and board memebers more money.
This is the folly of people pushing tax cuts for wealthy persons and corporations. The money never makes it past the dear leaders. If it does, it ends up in an offshore account.
The stock was trading below $2.00 a few weeks ago and recently tripled.....give him a bonus?
This wall street boy is going to take this company into bankruptcy, give him another bonus!
They will never learn their lesson.Perhaps when the company goes under they'll reward him again.Where are the stock holders in all this? If I were a share holder...you can count on me raising my voice over that news.Shareholders hold the trump card here...wake up people!!!
Squeek, squeek ,squeek .. The squeeking wheel gets the grease?
No .. that's the sound you will hear when you play the tightened up slot machines at the MGM as thay "earn" your money for the justified pay raise.
Things that make you go hummm?
So hundreds of us are laid off from the Mgm-Mirage and he is getting a bonus?? Great leadership Murren, way to boost the moral of your employees!! How about you man-up and pass on the bonus and bring the laid off employees back? Oh wait, I guess a few grand is worth more then proving to the employees of the largest private corporation in Nevada that you are a worthy leader. Good luck getting the union employees to work hard for you!
I agree that this is way out of line while laying off the little guy. I would think this a great opportunity for him to pass the money to the people that are working under him. He should walk through the casino and hand out $100 bills to all the employees. Then after that he should mail out $500 checks to all the people that have been let go until the money is all gone. He could be newest Las Vegas hero if plays things right.
any seasoned dealer that works for mgm could do a better job than these idiots. these exec's make me sick. like another reply said, none of my money to mgm on next visit.
For those who believe shareholders have a lot of say with corporate board officers and executive compensation for corporations which are incorporated in Delaware, this is simply not true. If push comes to shove, shareholders are limited in what they can do, that not being the case here anyway.
CEO Murren wrote a $500,000. letter to company employees recently. Or perhaps the $500,000. is a prepaid finders fee for locating a buyer for an MGM Mirage property that is a "good fit" within the industry. Or maybe $500,000. is pure Vegas luck for a CEO of a Fortune 500 Company with a BA degree in urban planning, i.e,, not only can the company absorb costs for an urban City Center, while the company also expands in other markets, BUT employees as late as early 2007 could expect to find their FUTURE HOMES (and commutes to their MGM Mirage job) in-from Primm, Nevada. Nice.
Perhaps the $500,000. is a fee to dock a boat back into a lagoon, where it should have stayed all along, because it was never your baby, it belonged rightfully to someone else.
Good luck with all those condos at City Center, and trying to straighten out small things like employee culture, loyalty, passion and training issues on $500,000. Let's play Let's Make a Deal, or The Price is Right, games right up your alley. For $500,000., who was the real trojan at MGM Mirage?
This is the typical business plan fostered by the White House criminals of the past 8 years. Screw the little guy, put them into the trenches to fight the daily battles (literally in Iraq), pay them little to do it, and reap (or is it spelled 'rape') the financial benefits as fast as you can, all the while portending greatness in your position of authority.
"America Gone Wild!" Blatantly showing off their a**es as though it's something to be proud of...and then trying to re-write history to make themselves look good when they leave. Can't wait to read this one's accomplishments.
Can you spell B-U-S-H or C-H-E-N-E-Y or R-O-V-E? The triumphant trio that brought down the global economy and are now fat-catting it around the country as though they are statesmen? Wonder if they are worried about losing their homes? Supporting their families? Paying for health care? Oops...we supply all of that for them, don't we?
Can't help but wonder how much of the bailout money in the first go around they devised made it to their wallets. And, this article illustrates more of the same principles in action. From Wall Street to corporations across this country...the rich get richer and the people are enslaved to them ~ The Big Plantation Owners and the rest of us that work for them. And all of the big-mouthed right-wingers are calling the new (THANK GOD!)administration fascists, socialists, communists, and much more.
It's a sad story how far and wide greed has been showcased as achievement and accepted as business as usual.
Not sure what Bush, Cheney, Obama, or anyone other than MGM-Mirage shareholders have to do with this issue, but if one needs someone else to blame, please go ahead and do so, mr/ms transplanted...I am in total agreement with the astute LemonSky in that it makes no business sense...as per usual, it is about connections, not performance...the one thing that does continues to befuddle me is the 'in your face, what are you gonna do about it' attitude of these corporate elitists...amazing arrogance...oh well, what is, is...at least it is a beautiful Saturday in the Las Vegas Valley...
purgatory...
it's the attitude that has been fostered across this country by B_C_R, not to mention their policies, ideologies and methods of operations that created the de-regulations and other such ills by which corporate America has used to abuse the economic fibers of our country and the global markets. Their reach has been unsurpassed by previous governments, except maybe for the ancient empires that flogged, raped, pillaged and executed the masses into submission. (oh, I guess nothing has changed??)
We have been fed to the lions! Let them eat cake! Make more bricks--without straw! Give me my $500,000 raise, stock options, and golden parachute, damn you peasants!
Let's see... did this guy 'DO' anything??? Find a cure for diabetes? cancer? Map the universe? Oh, wait...those things are not important enough to warrant a BIG salary or compensation. (much like Bush, Cheney, and Rove) --What did THEY do?
And to get things straight to all of you saying you are not spending any money at MGM. The company owns MGM Grand, Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, Luxor, NY Ny, Monte Carlo, Circus Circus, Excalibur, The Mirage, City Center, Rail Road Pass, Signature Condo Hotel and Slots A Fun. Not to mention various golf courses and hotel/casinos outside of Nevada. So please refrain from spending at all of these places and not just the MGM Grand.
...we won't...and we're not stupid ctwomp. Last time I looked there are dozens of other casinos in Las Vegas.
And this is not about Executive Compensation as a broad topic. This is about a company that has been horribly mismanaged and has been allowed to grapple our city in a stranglehold by taking over nearly 50 percent of the Strip and then crying for help when the money ran out. You can't dismiss your partner's law suit as "completely without merit" when they accuse you of mismanaging funds and then attempt to write up a Golden Parachute for yourself to the tune of $7 million when you clearly see the end is near. We as locals should not continue to partonize a corporation who is on the verge of financial disaster and then bathes its incompetent executives in cash it doesn't have.
Remember my friends, this is about more than how much one guy is making. These fools hold the livelyhoods of nearly 55,000 local employees in their hands. Everyone here who has commented as they have has every right to be outraged. Who do these fools think are going to bail them out when things finally do tank? The Fed sure isn't going to pay for a gambling company to stay afloat and if there were dozens of investors out there ready to pony up the cash they would have come calling by now.
Murren is a jerk who is simply milking what he can get while he can and ensuring a jackpot payout when he finally runs the company into a reef.
Hey hey hey,
I just read most of these comments.
I believe most of you are blind to what is going on with MGM,they may have Chapter 11 signed within weeks.
Dubhai will own Vegas after suing them for defaulting their payment. If they couldn't afford a 70 million payment.
Perhaps the MGM is looking to bleed out. It is better to understand from a market point of view what is going on then looking at some ones bonus and declaring " not fair ". Large Corps don't look at whats fair. Money vs fairness, money wins hands down.
Absolutely mind boggling and absurd.
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MGM is a private company...not yet controlled by Obama's socialist agenda....they can pay whomever whatever they want...if the stockohlders get upset they can change things....but until then and hopfully unless Osamabama changes it, we are a capitalist society...it you dont agree with what a company does spend your money elsewhere, this is a nonstory
Dubai withheld their last payment....MGM struggled to make the required payment on time. The money is gone...and Dubai isn't putting up another dime.Anyone here learn a lesson ?
Unbelievable. Thousands of employees get laid off, and he get a $500K raise. So what if they haven't replaced him; anyone who's been laid off and all the remaining employees who haven't been laid off will be livid! How could anyone on a compensation committee possibly think this would be a good idea? Where is the common sense?
I feel really sorry for the employees who had their raises taken away,no cola for this yr, and no further raises until the company rebounds. These folks are living from paycheck to paycheck just to make ends meet,during what MGM calls a economic crisis. Now they hear about a 500,000.00 increase in pay? And Bonuses? Please !.... I don't understand how they can actually tell the workers,who create a atmosphere of 1st class accomodations, and a place where they want people to come back. And then kick them in the teeth by handing out a pay raise like that,and a bonus structure.I'm sure he's not worried about losing his home, paying the increased Nevada power bill.Last time I knew, people were stuggling just to keep what they have.Now they're asked to pay more for insurance, freeze their wages, and some have had them taken back after they already earned it.Way to take care of your own MGM. It amazes me once again, that the ground floor workers, who make companies thrive, are also the ones who gets the beating when things are out of their control.Congratulations, Mr Murren, You deserve it.
It's amazing how these people at the top are not seeing the writing on the wall...the bigger they are the harder they fall. I just hope that this guy takes all his hundreds of thousands and takes a different route and invests it wisely back into the economy. If he can come up with a plan to help other people in terms of jobs, the economy wins, the people win, and so does he, perhaps, in the long run. Of coarse, maybe he is in arrears in the monthly payment for his condo or whatever he is living in these days.
Seems to me all the people who work for them have taken on extra responsibility too as they have laid off thousands of workers. Did they get a huge raise for that. Nope. This man should be ashamed of himself. He is obviously seriously incompetent and had his hand in driving MGM to near Bankruptcy. Pathetic.
I firmly believe that the "Fat Cats" are out of control......we, the taxpayers are supplementing these payments......I am thoroughly disgusted with MGM. I worked there for 7 years....they are the most GREEDY employer I have ever met. Forget how many people they employ....they pay most minimum salaries and wages. HIGH TIME they got THEIRS.....I hope no one comes thru for them and they belly up.....take that fat cat crook Kerkorian with you.........
What a bunch of jealous haters some of you posters are. Why don't you march over to Murren's home in the middle of the night and wave your torches and pitchforks? Of course, that's what your Communist Messiah would want you to do (while he's having his pizza flown in on a private jet all the way from Missouri because "he likes the crust". No talk about carbon footprints or an imperial presidency about this guy!)
You people are pathetic. MGM has a board and stockholders and if they want to pay Murren, or any other "fat cat"10 million dollars for sitting with his thumb up his butt all day, that's their business and their perogative, not yours.
The notion that Odinga has yet to decimate the United States into a totally socialist "utopia" where
"equality" manifests itself by way of a crappy standard of living for all of us (unless you're Obama,
of course!) is obviously very disappointing to you losers, but fortunately, Capitalism and the free market will win out.
And, btw, how is not paying Murren his contract going to make your life any better? Will it increase the size of your bank account? Get you a bigger house? Yeah, I thought so.
Maybe if some of you had bothered to pay attention in school and advance your education, such that you, too, could get a job that pays well into the six figures, you wouldn't be so jealous and whiny.
Don't like the fact that someone makes more money than you? Whhaaaa, whaaaa!! Then, as the libs love to say when they defend the foisting of offensive content on radio and tv; "it's a FREE country. Don't like it? Then turn the channel!"
In this case, you jealous haters can just stop frequenting MGM properties. I'm sure it will have a huge impact.
I agree, boycott MGM, that sounds like a great idea. And guess who will pick up the bag after it goes bankrupt? Probably the taxpayers. And where will the laid off employees go after it goes bankrupt? On public rolls. And who was responsible for at least some of this? Murren. So don't say that this is just a capitalistic exercise. If nothing else, he should have the moral gumption to refuse this outrageous payout. But wait, moral outrage for him? Never. That's what I thought.
After injuring MGM employees (cutting jobs; cutting pay while forcing longer working hours for those who remain) and stockholders (stock worth only 6% of what it traded for 1-1/2 years ago), I suppose MGM figures that they might as well add some insult as well.
MGM is trying to dump profitable properties while betting the farm on the Titanic (CityCenter), and the mess that they are in is due completely, COMPLETELY, to incompetent, out-of-touch management that could only perform when times were good and financing was easy. A $500K raise to deliver disastrous results? RIDICULOUS! It's obvious that Murren and the rest of the cronies are getting the golden parachutes ready so that they can bail as conveniently as they did when they executed stock options and immediately sold in 2007 when MGM was at its peak, leaving everyone else holding the empty bag.
I can't help thinking of Johnny Rotten's remarks to the audience as he closed his band's final concert before splitting up: "Hahahaha, did you ever get the feeling you've been cheated??" Maybe MGM can build a new Cirque du Soleil show around that concept . . . .
Somebody has to decide whether this guy gets a 500 Thousand Dollar pay raise or not. Is it some board members, or just the top management that can decide? Either way, this stinks. They're laying off thousands of people, are close to bankruptcy, Dubai World is reluctant to shoot in more money and this fatcat gets a super bonus on top of his paycheck. To me, this sounds like a Truman Show!!! I wonder who approved this craze!!!
From Switzerland
Wow, so many jealous people posting comments...
I find it funny when people get angry at others salaries who have worked hard their entire life to achieve this. Its called jealousy, and since you all make 5 figure salaries for whatever reason (no college, dont work hard, etc) you get angry at people who work hard.
I can guarantee you one thing, if you were Mr.Murren you wouldnt be complaining.
Again it all boils down to jealousy
I don't think this has anything to do with jealousy. Murren has simply not been effective and is the point person for City Center and MGM collapse. The idea is that he should take a hit and not get rewarded.
Patrick,
this isn't about jealousy at all. This is about a company that told their employees to give up their pay raises, increased their insurance premiums due to the economy situations. We are all aware of this economy. These workers are not jealous of million dollar incomes, they are concerned about their own. And when the company asks for these concessions, and then the next day decide to give a pay increase of that size, including bonuse structures, you can't help but think how these workers feel emotionaly.because its not about how much ceo's get paid, its about survival for them paycheck to paycheck while these ceo's do not have to worry much about daily living exspenses,like the workers,who are the ones who create the Las Vegas experience to guests, and make sure they want to come back and enjoy their vacations. The ground floor worker never cares who drives Bentleys and BMW's, or live in million dollar mansions. They all care about making a living for their own. So when a company takes away from one,lay off another, and explain to them they no longer can afford to give out. But then throws a huge salary increase to another,ya can't help but get upset, not jealous. But its the American way these days.Screw the guys who keep the great companies clean,safe, and provide a great atmoshere for guests.And this is what they get for their reward.If their happened to be $500,000.00 floating around the company, i surely could have found a better way to use it for many,rather than just one. Again, I say way to take care of their own, MGM. Jealous? No. In tough times, everyone should suck it up alittle. but when they take from the line workers, and give to the ceo's, theres just something thats wrong with that picture.
I work for that company. And today I was given the *priviledge* [sarcasm] of being forced to apply for my job that I currently am in. Why? Cause they merged 3 departments of IT and only have 65 openings and 80 people to apply. Oh, and lets not forget the TEMPS that are there and *I* after 6 years have to compete against them.....How can Murren justify his actions right now? Our quality assurance department got outsourced the beginning of March. Guess what? It got outsourced to India. Oh, and here is some insult to injury.....those India people are literally sitting in the same chairs as my friends *were*, get it *were*. The few that were not walked out by security in March were left to train the outsourced people. WTF? And then the outsourced people call ME for tech support? that is unacceptable, oh and by the way UNAMERICAN!
who the heck are your referring to as the communist messiah and who the heck is odinga? The way you structure that sarcastic sentence is that YOU will be included in a *crappy standard of living* - you justified what the mega companies are doing to the U.S. of America. If YOU dont like the crappy standard of living, perhaps this country isnt for YOU!
MGM Mirage professes to be the cheerleader of healthy living. All the properties have employee dining rooms. I am off site and we dont. However, just a couple of months ago, they were delivering fresh fruit, a milk machine and those small boxes of cereal for us. We all thought - hey that is cool. Finally, we got some fun stuff. The MGM Mirage Corporation takes a tax deduction for every single (employed *cough*)person $7.50 perday for the food they provide in the EDRs.Since we are off site, we got a whopping $6.50 daily stipend for food. Its taxable income,big WOOP....so, deduct the 28% tax bracket, and then the sales tax on any food we may buy. Do the math. We got emails telling us to no longer show up at properties to eat at the EDR because the card swipers will not let us in. Now, for me, I bring my food every single day however, that doesnt dismiss that the MGM Mirage corporation still takes a tax deduction for our lovely whopping $6.50 a day that WE pay taxes on...........
Not only do we not get the whopping 3% COLA this year, which if you can do the math without an abicus, doesnt actually cover the real COLA.Oh, and heck, the company is no longer contributing to our 401k plan. they sent that letter out to their minions dated March 25th - the quarter was due March 31st in which they would have had to match our contributions.
Not one of the front line workers/room service /to PAD/ bldg engineers/to IT made ONE freakin financial decision as murren has. HE and the upper management ARE responsible for the condition of the company. Not ME, not anyone who lives check to check.
so narc -spare me the thinking that any ONE of us is a whiner.
Oh, and BTW do you drive a bentley? I think I saw you park it the other day
Pat -
perhaps you can provide a daily work schedule murren has. Yawn, meeting #1, meeting #2 - nap time. Oh and heck, lunch time - nap time - Yawn, can I get my admin to get me some *cawfee*? Don't insult people by stating they don't have education or don't work hard. You find it *funny*? There isnt anything funny about possibly loosing your home or having to park a car IN the garage in hopes the repo man can't get in. How old is murren? 50ish? that aint' a lifetime in case you can't count.
You can *guarantee* that if I were murren I would not be complaining? you ARE right about that - you know why? Because I would not have to do that. So, YUP you are right.
I work in IT and guess what? we are deemed a non money maker department.....heheheheh perhaps I should just disable all the front desk accounts. shall I snap murren off his LAN account? Oh, and wait whatZ about the retail shops? schnapp. Oh and since I on a roll, his admin - BYE....non money maker my but$. IMHO he should be apologizing to the employees that are no longer there. Do you or others know that in our mgmmirage momentum *newsletter* (sent daily) that he claimed to be from a middle class family? hahahahaha - right. I dang near fell outta my chair in laughter. He was raised in Fairfield, CT. I don't think those *middleclass* in that part of the country really understand that you *CAIN'T* see yo yacht from yo front yard.
The best revenge...join a union! Not patronizing the MGMMirage properties only screws the ones that still work there...in order to cut costs, they'll just layoff more workers, it won't affect Murrans raise and incentives.
I work for this company. I have a Union contract that guarantees my pay raise. It was effective on April 1.
It took about 6 months to negotiate with these "poor" fat cats who constantly bemoaned how there was NO WAY the company could afford our OUTRAGEOUS $.75 p/hour raise demand(I mean, look at the economy!) Thankfully in the end, we did get it, but we had to fight like hell to get it.
Then about a year ago, the company took the room reservations dept. agents at all the Las Vegas properties ('cept for Bellagio) and relocated them into a "Contact Center" over by MCCarran airport. Agents that transferred to the contact center were now non-union employees.
At the time, the company painted a rosy picture about how wonderfull it was going to be working there (they get $6.00 p/day (taxable income for meals)and all kinds of wonderfull incentives (non-economic that is) and, that they didn't need the Union because they would be making more money than the union employees made (crappy benefits, but more money on your check).
Well that was then and this is now. They too were recently informed that they won't be getting a raise this year either,no more 401k matching and their insurance premium has gone up (the company is facing bankruptcy remember). The Teamsters Union is attempting to organize this Contact Center...if the employees there are as outraged at Murren's raise as they should be when non-union employees are getting the shaft, then they should vote to become a Union Shop. Then they too can have a contract, a pay raise, much better health insurance (that the company pays for, not you.) For all the other non union employees(dealers,security personell etc.) you too should rethink joining a union...it's all us little guys have.
I think your going to find that since they are committed to finishing the city center, they are going to be in trouble for a long time. This city center was set up to attract big spenders.Penthouses and condo galore.Expensive foods, and luxury lounges. And they'll have to sell big, because its the only way they will survive. So what percentage of travelers are going to stay there. Time will tell, but in my opinion, its going to be used for storage. These masterminds have reached so high to be the best, they forgot about a reccession that may never come back.But as long as these Ceo's can get their cut now before it falls, thats all that matters. This is just another prime example of whats wrong with america.The greed is helping maybe 10 percent, while the workforce is going to live on the streets.And even when the company doesn't show a profit, you'd never know it by the ridiculas bonuses and raises this 10% gets. From the short time i've lived out here, when i asked whats gone wrong.....Everyone of them told me that las vegas was so much better when the mob ran the casino's.If you worked hard at your job, you had the job for life,no exceptions. If you messed up bad,caught cheating,stealing....well they would just take you out for a long one way ride.But all the old people i talked to said they took care of you, no matter what. Can't say that about todays corporations. They have the concept of "its about me 1st". No wonder theres so much hatred in our country. I truely thought Obama would be as close to thought as any politician. He has purely dissapointed me so far. just like the rest. And as scarey as it sounds, and i don't like it one bit, but i see a war happening within our own country. Not that other countries are as important. but the fact america is getting restless with the way our leaders are putting us through. I pray it never does. But I also see that much hatred.
we are just down the street from the "contact" center. Send the union reps over our way. I would vote all day long for the unions.
To Jolawanda: If you want the Union Reps to organize your dept. you need to contact them. The # for Teamsters Local 995 is: 385-0995. Press the appropriate # for the organizing dept. Good Luck to you :)
we are just down the street from the "contact" center. Send the union reps over our way. I would vote all day long for the unions.
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