Why Trump Likes Rallies At Manufacturing Plants

[bodysong]

A new report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette claims that workers
at Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical plant in Beaver County this
week were told that they had to attend President Donald Trump’s
speech on energy if they wanted to be paid.

In a memo to union employees obtained by the Post-Gazette,
Shell informed workers that their “attendance is not mandatory,”
but said that if they did not attend the rally, they would have to
take a day off without getting paid.

According to the Post-Gazette, workers were to show up no
later than 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning this week, where they
were to get their identity cards scanned and would then have
to wait in line for hours before the president’s speech.

“NO SCAN, NO PAY,” Shell informed the workers.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/wo...id-unless-they-attended-trumps-speech-report/

Trump's large union crowd at Shell was given the option of not showing up and not getting paid

August 16, 2019

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

https://www.post-gazette.com/busine...-attendance-pay-overtime/stories/201908160113

A spokesperson for Shell described Trump's speech as “a paid training day

A speech on energy and manufacturing-

"67 minute speech, that was nearly indistinguishable from something that Mr. Trump would deliver at one of his campaign rallies."

- New York Times

August 15th 2019

In a speech on Tuesday at Royal Dutch ethane cracker plant northwest
of Pittsburgh, pResident Donald Trump claimed he was the sole president
responsible for the plant's existence.

"It was the Trump administration that made it possible. No one else."

"Without us, you would never have been able to do this," he said."

Fact check:

Trump takes credit for another factory approved under Obama

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/poli...other-factory-approved-under-obama/index.html

Trump's speech to union workers, waiting to hear about
energy and manufacturing-

He lied, he complained, he boasted, he bloviated.

He begged for votes.

“You know, the Academy Awards is on hard times now,
you know that. Nobody wants to watch it. You know why?
Because they started taking us on, everyone got tired of it.
It’s amazing. That used to be second after the Super Bowl.
And then all of a sudden now it’s just another show, because
people got tired of people getting up and making fools of
themselves and disrespecting the people in this room and
the people that won the election in 2016.”

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trum...-and-manufacturing-they-started-taking-us-on/

Trump's visit to the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex

About halfway through his address, he sounded like a man
seeking re-election in 2020.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/new...trump-touts-cracker-plant-as-economic-engine/

 

[JKendallDane]

There's a very simple explanation...

45 got tired of his campaign having to recruit and pay for actors to show up at his ego fests, so he fell back on his old standard of using "Other People's Money" and is now conning companies like this Shell plant into paying the tab for the crowd.

Supposedly a lot of the workers were pissed that he kept babbling like a deranged loon well past the time they were supposed to get off.

.

 

[bodysong]

Deliberately sadistic

tRump-

"Be my unpaid propaganda props in hard hats, or you will pay
through the nose."

August 16, 2019

Pennsylvania union leaders reveal Shell employees who skipped
Trump rally lost hundreds in income

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on Friday that the consequences
of not attending amounted to far more than just the loss of one
day’s wages. Employees who wanted to skip the MAGAfest
were technically free to do so, but their choice would cause
a loss of as much as $700 later in the week.

Those that decided to sit out the event-
would have an excused absence, the company said, and
would not qualify for overtime pay on Friday. The company
has a 56-hour workweek with 16 hours of overtime. That means
those workers who attended Mr. Trump’s speech and showed up
for work on Friday meeting the overtime threshold are being paid
at a rate of time and a half, while those that didn’t go to hear the
president are being paid the regular rate, despite the fact that both
groups did not do work on the site on Tuesday.

Those that did attend were required to be present from 7:00 a.m.
until well after 3:00 p.m., with no lunch break allowed, or lunch
provided. Additionally, employees were told that they were expected
to “promote good will from the labor unions” by Shell, whatever
their personal feelings about the current administration might be.

Reporters on the ground on Tuesday also noted that after standing,
without a lunch break, for eight hours, the workers were forced to
spend more of their time, unpaid, in an exit queue.

It is becoming a mess getting workers out of Trump event.
Crowd getting angry. Many of them stopped getting paid
at 3pm when their shift ended.

(pic)

— Shannon Pettypiece (@spettypi) August 13, 2019

No lunch break, for full grown men that do physical labor.
You would think that Trump was deliberately provoking men
into losing their tempers.

It would have been more exciting for Trump's propaganda photo-op
if union workers fought amongst themselves.
No Wendy's, pizza, Burger King, or waffle fries
were provided.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...o-skipped-Trump-rally-lost-hundreds-in-income

Trump does not just get his sadistic jollies from treating women,
minorities, and immigrants like shit. He treats union workers like shit.
He treats the people that work for him like shit.

He gets off on it.

There is something deeply wrong with tRump.

 

[bodysong]

Daily Kos writer was bit more blunt about it. Trump did not stop
at making a backroom deal with the owners, bullying the union leaders,
and betraying the workers- He insulted them to their faces.

This was the rally at which Trump none-too-subtly told the workers
that they were too stupid to be assembling computers or doing anything
complex, and should stick with doing things more suited to their “big hands.”
But contractors provided the rules under which those workers attended:
“No yelling, shouting, protesting or anything viewed as resistance will be
tolerated at the event.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...sburgh-1461337

On his pledge to salvage manufacturing jobs:

“You guys, I don’t know what the hell you’re going to do.
You don’t want to make widgets, right? You don’t want to make —
do you want to learn how to make a computer?
A little tiny piece of stuff. ...
You put it with those big, beautiful hands of yours like …
you’re going to take these big hands, going to take this little tiny part.
You’re going to go home, ‘Alice this is a tough job.’
Nah, you want to make steel, and you want to dig coal —
that’s what you want to do!”

(Why would Trump have any special reason to punish union
workers ? It goes back to his father forcing Trump to bruise
his ego, and lower himself by traveling to low-rent buildings
and to extract rent from working class tenants. Trump has a
hatred for the memory of his past. It conflicts directly with
his new exalted image of himself. Unions have earned a
special hatred from Trump. He resorted to using illegal labor
from Eastern Europe because unions made real American labor
too expensive for him. His buildings were plastered externally
with luxury, like a cake has frosting, but the internal structure
was shit. He blames union workers as scapegoats, for his
empire decaying behind him. In Trump's mind, if it were not
for unions, he could have been a real, live trillionaire. Not the
role of poseur and pretender, his life forces him to play out.
Unions enabled the middle class to afford the safe, nice suburbs
where he grew up. His father may have had a good deal of wealth,
but Trump remains angry that his father did not provide a
higher tier of society for him to thrive in. Just watch who
Trump interacts with, when he returns to NJ. Old ties still
bind. His yarbles are permanantly in a bind. Reality really
sucks for Trump, and he is taking it out on everyone.)

August 17, 2019
- Mark Sumner

Oil and gas giant Shell told workers to show up and cheer
for Trump if they wanted to get paid.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ed-to-get-paid

As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports

...if they didn’t show up, they had to “take the day off with no pay.”
This didn’t just apply to people working directly for Shell,
but also for those who work for dozens of union contractors
involved in construction at the site.

“NO SCAN, NO PAY.”

That meant standing around for hours, and missing their breaks
and lunch, all so they could get the pleasure of getting a normal
day’s pay … by being forced to attend Trump’s speech.

And it wasn’t even just one day’s pay at risk.

Shell also made it clear that while they would graciously grant
an unpaid leave of absence to anyone who didn’t want to hear
Trump, they would dock their time. Meaning that those workers
could be called in over the weekend without getting overtime rates.
In total, each worker was at risk of losing around $700 if they failed
to act as a prop for Donald Trump’s rambling.


And not only were workers told that they had to show up and
scan their ID cards to prove they had attended, they also had
to behave as if they approved of everything Trump was saying.

(Do not fuck up Trump's photo-op and propaganda film footage...)

 

[jaF0]

Yo, Slushie....

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1507769

 

[bodysong]

September 14, 2019

A Pennsylvania man who voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 told CNN
on Friday that he’s bitterly disappointed in how he’s seen no progress in
manufacturing jobs returning to his community.

John Golomb, a retired steel worker who backed the president in 2016
because of his promises to bring back good paying jobs to the Rust Belt,
explained to CNN that Trump gave his community false hope about an
economic revival during his first presidential campaign.


“We had Donald Trump come here and profess about reviving American steel,”
he said. “That’s just what all of us steelworkers wanted to hear!”

In the nearly three years since the election, however, Golomb said he’s
still waiting for Trump to fulfill his promises.

“When he was elected, he pulled a Houdini on us,” he said.

“He disappeared.”


The retired steelworker was then asked what he would tell the president
if he ever came back to campaign in his community.

“He wouldn’t speak to me because I would have to tell him truth,”
Golomb said. “Where are your promises?”

https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/pe...mises-to-rust-belt-he-pulled-a-houdini-on-us/

August 12, 2019

There was a reason for the "rally" on private company property,
closed venue, closed gates, and forced attendence.

The mouths of the workers were clamped shut, because they could be identified
and blackballed for bucking the gag orders, and lose $700.00 and their jobs.

Pennsylania Shell chemical workers stood on their feet, all day on August 13th

Standing in line to be identified, sign papers- taking busses to an
inspection tent, and taking another bus to Trump's tent and jumping
through security hoops, and metal detectors, so that Trump could have a nice
propaganda film session with no protesters. The workers were forced
to join. All the overtime of a weeks pay would be docked, $700.00-
if they did not make nice for the Trumpypants Duncecap- The top union
leadership sold them out, and the necks of the floor supervisors were
on the chopping block if they could not make the employees behave
themselves. Trump sailed in late, and left late, and the Shell employees
remained standing an hour past their required 12:00- 3:00 stint.
The workers had to wait until Trump's motorcade Shell property.
Trump had failed to irk the Shell workers into rebellion, but he
made them work a free hour for him. Donald may be a greedy
shithead, but he is a cowardly, paranoid shithead. He knows
that people hate him.

 

[bodysong]

Trumpypant Dunce-Cap poses with a tank

The Last Tank Factory in Ohio

Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio.

Forced to attend ?

The tank factory he visited, which is government-owned
but operated by General Dynamics, nearly closed six years
ago. Army officials told Congress that they didn’t need any
more of the heavy M-1 Abrams tanks it produces because
the vehicles are less suited for modern wars against insurgents.

After his plant visit, Trump had a fundraiser in Canton.
(Must have a ready excuse for having the taxpayer pick
up the travel tab and security team tab for a visit to cash
bag grab.)

Though Wednesday’s speech in Lima, Ohio, was billed as
an official presidential address — and paid for with taxpayer
dollars, not campaign funds — Trump spoke repeatedly
about the 2020 election,

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-ohio-factory-jobs-economy-20190320-story.html


During his Ohio visit, Trump bypassed Lordstown, the site
of a General Motors plant that is shutting down

March 21, 2019

Speaking in front of about 800 workers, supporters and local officials
gathered inside the cavernous plant

Trump unexpectedly veered into a five-minute riff on his feud
with the late Sen. John McCain.

As the crowd stood mostly silent, Trump criticized McCain
for casting a decisive vote against a Republican plan to repeal
the Affordable Care Act, argued inaccurately about the senator’s
record on veterans issues, blasted him for passing along the so-called
Steele dossier to the FBI and then argued, bizarrely, that he had not
been properly thanked for allowing McCain’s funeral. (In reality,
the president played little role in approving it.)

It was a moment that ended up overshadowing the message of the
event on cable news, along with a tweet earlier in the day about
the husband of advisor Kellyanne Conway.

https://time.com/5555479/donald-trump-lima-army-tank-plant/

Republican President Donald Trump, during a trip to Ohio
Wednesday, again laid the blame for the idling of the General
Motors plant in Lordstown on the more than 1,400 now-laid
off workers.

In his speech to the around 1,000 employees, Trump said the
workers at the Lordstown GM factory, which up until its
recent shuttering produced the Chevy Cruze, didn’t try to
save the facility.

“They could’ve kept that gorgeous plant,” Trump said.
“Lower your dues. Lower your dues.”

His statements about union dues are curious.
Union dues are paid by employees, not by
the company.

Regardless of the accuracy of his statements, Trump’s comments
were clearly intended to blame the union workers for the plant’s
demise in the latest bit of a feud that has at times approached the
bizarre.

It all started over the weekend when Trump attacked UAW
Local 1112 President Dave Green, head of the union that
represents Lordstown workers, apparently in a fit of rage
over a brief appearance by Green on Fox News.

https://www.cleveland.com/politics/2019/03/donald-trump-in-lima.html

United Auto Workers called a strike on Sunday for the first time
in over a decade as contract negotiations reached an impasse

17 Sep 2019

The UAW called a strike on Sunday for the first time in over
a decade as negotiations reached an impasse. Talks began again
on Monday. Cotton and other workers insist they are not just there
for the 49,000 union employees at GM’s US plants and distribution
centers, but for workers across America who aren’t sharing in high
corporate profits, as well as their families and their communities.

Over the last two and a half years, the company pulled in over
$25bn in profits, while CEO Mary Berra’s $22m 2018 salary –
281 times that of the median GM worker – irked those on the line.

Simon Dandu called GM’s reliance on Mexican and Chinese
workforces a “slap in the face”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/17/gm-strike-auto-workers-fight-management-greed