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Who’s Your ‘Mean One?’ Nominations Open for Grinch of the Year |
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You know it’s the holiday season in the world of labor when the Grinch rolls around. Jobs with Justice (JwJ) kicks off its ninth Grinch of the Year contest with open nominations for a CEO, corporation or politician who is greedy and mean and with a heart that is at least “two sizes too small.”
Last year’s Grinch of the Year was Smithfield Foods Inc. Chairman Joseph Luter III. He took the title, says JwJ, because the company’s slaughterhouse—the largest pork killing floor in the world—is one of the most dangerous worksites in the United States, and workers are routinely injured, harassed, intimidated and threatened by Smithfield management.
In 2006, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. wore the Grinch crown after it forced 15,000 United Steelworkers (USW) members out on strike at 16 plants across North America, despite concessions given by retirees in 2003 to ensure that Goodyear remained in business.
Past nominees, losers in more ways than one, include Wal-Mart, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Comcast and Bob Toohey, Verizon Business vice president of human resources.
Click here to nominate the Grinch of the Year candidate you think has done the most harm to working families in the past year. Please include a few lines on why he, she or it is deserving of the award. Nominations are open until Friday, Nov. 28. Nominees will be announced shortly after.
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The Grinch of the year is the person responsible for putting 2 Border Patrol Agents, Ramos and Campean, behind bars for doing their job, then granting amnesty to the dope smuggler.
My nomination for Grinch of the year is Alan Hanks, Mayor for the City Rapid City, South Dakota.
He recently gave the upper management of the City of Rapid City government employees significant raises at the expense of the rank and file of the non safety employees union, known as AFSCME.
My Local is fighting the subsidizing of the managment raises that we are forced into. Our members are getting transferred by demotion involuntarily, but we are fighting, our unit is short staffed with some divisions not getting two consctutive days off, but we are fighting and couple of employees we represent will no longer have a job in the new year as they are laid off after Christmas, but we are fighting and will keep fighting next summer at the ballot box. The Mayor is up for election in June ‘09.