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Post by lawton on Apr 14, 2013 10:41:53 GMT -5
Unbelievable. Ask the Teamsters business agents to explain this. thefloridachannel.org/video/41213-press-availability-with-house-speaker-will-weatherford/Absolutely Pathetic just prior to the 2 minute mark Weatherford is asked about the DOC not getting the same extra raises as the PBA Officers and he doesn't even have a clue what they are talking about and the other legislator has to step in and say they were approached about FHP retention problems (ours is worse than theirs actually) and moves on real quickly. TheTeamsters lobbyists didn't even have this on the House's power players radar so they could even give a bs answer to the reporters on why we aren't included. Simply pathetic representation for us specifically. |
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Post by Drauka on Apr 14, 2013 13:16:26 GMT -5
Unbelievable. Ask the Teamsters business agents to explain this. thefloridachannel.org/video/41213-press-availability-with-house-speaker-will-weatherford/Absolutely Pathetic just prior to the 2 minute mark Weatherford is asked about the DOC not getting the same extra raises as the PBA Officers and he doesn't even have a clue what they are talking about and the other legislator has to step in and say they were approached about FHP retention problems (ours is worse than theirs actually) and moves on real quickly. TheTeamsters lobbyists didn't even have this on the House's power players radar so they could even give a bs answer to the reporters on why we aren't included. Simply pathetic representation for us specifically. Please see the other thread, since I have no interest in following 500 of your "I hate the Teamsters" threads. |
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Post by lawton on Apr 14, 2013 13:39:32 GMT -5
Unbelievable. Ask the Teamsters business agents to explain this. thefloridachannel.org/video/41213-press-availability-with-house-speaker-will-weatherford/Absolutely Pathetic just prior to the 2 minute mark Weatherford is asked about the DOC not getting the same extra raises as the PBA Officers and he doesn't even have a clue what they are talking about and the other legislator has to step in and say they were approached about FHP retention problems (ours is worse than theirs actually) and moves on real quickly. TheTeamsters lobbyists didn't even have this on the House's power players radar so they could even give a bs answer to the reporters on why we aren't included. Simply pathetic representation for us specifically. Please see the other thread, since I have no interest in following 500 of your "I hate the Teamsters" threads. Facts hurt don't they but facts like this show just how pathetic the Teamsters lobbyists and agents are as far as DOC goes. Like they say - results matter and with things like this out here showing how inept they are. Its too bad people like you buy into their bs - hey the PBA is the reason DOC is screwed this year - FHP got 5% when you had PBA - how pathetic the Teamsters are. All that said I still hope we pull the raise despite their joke representation. |
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Post by lawton on Apr 15, 2013 17:52:24 GMT -5
Well I got a slight ray of hope today on the pay raise issue as I am in Sen Negron's district and stated that in my e-mail to him and he gave me a personal reply instead of the canned response I got from Sen Gaetz and some others.
He basically said he likes hearing from his constituents on issues and I made some good points and he will discuss the pay raise disparity issue in negotiations at conference. He definately was not promising anything however.
If any of you are in his district let him know that in the e-mail. Maybe using the word constituent gets it actually to him or they are checking the IP address maybe for location. When contacting your own legislator it would probably be a good idea also.
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Post by Mr Hat on Apr 18, 2013 5:12:04 GMT -5
Well I got a slight ray of hope today on the pay raise issue as I am in Sen Negron's district and stated that in my e-mail to him and he gave me a personal reply instead of the canned response I got from Sen Gaetz and some others. He basically said he likes hearing from his constituents on issues and I made some good points and he will discuss the pay raise disparity issue in negotiations at conference. He definately was not promising anything however. If any of you are in his district let him know that in the e-mail. Maybe using the word constituent gets it actually to him or they are checking the IP address maybe for location. When contacting your own legislator it would probably be a good idea also. Senator Negron was originally the ONLY senator that was pushing to EXCLUDE FDOC Officers from any raises in the budget this year. Either someone's misinformed, or he had a sudden change of heart. |
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Post by lawton on Apr 18, 2013 5:51:47 GMT -5
Well I got a slight ray of hope today on the pay raise issue as I am in Sen Negron's district and stated that in my e-mail to him and he gave me a personal reply instead of the canned response I got from Sen Gaetz and some others. He basically said he likes hearing from his constituents on issues and I made some good points and he will discuss the pay raise disparity issue in negotiations at conference. He definately was not promising anything however. If any of you are in his district let him know that in the e-mail. Maybe using the word constituent gets it actually to him or they are checking the IP address maybe for location. When contacting your own legislator it would probably be a good idea also. Senator Negron was originally the ONLY senator that was pushing to EXCLUDE FDOC Officers from any raises in the budget this year. Either someone's misinformed, or he had a sudden change of heart. He seems to be trying to act like that now but it may just be because of what Evers did on the floor. I think personally he doesn't want to do anything extra for us Teamster backed CO's due to politics/donations probably but we will see I guess. |
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