IBEW 304 Forums: Recent Posts

IBEW 304 Forums: Recent Posts http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ A service of LU 304 en Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:55:12 +0000 Steve Batts on "Web Site" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=2#post-13 Sat, 15 May 2010 04:14:20 +0000 Steve Batts 13@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ Any crane training to any IBEW Local 304 member, protect the local from bringing in Operating Engineer's. You still think it is wasted money, protecting our jobs? After 42 years I WILL Tell it like it is!!! cgriffin on "Web Site" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=2#post-12 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:59:54 +0000 cgriffin 12@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ I guess no one wants to tell it like it is ! but i will, the hall needs to update training post, and any new training going on, I my self think if we are paying for apes to go to crane training is pretty much a waste until they, the apes get there lineman ticket! I guessing we have a lot of money just sitting in the fund Sbatts1 on "Health Care" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=3#post-11 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:36:40 +0000 Sbatts1 11@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ This is our fight come 2010 Elections in November DearEditor: I am retired an pay for my wife and myself with medicare and Secondary with drug benefits, $578 a month for health insurance. When planning 30 plus years ago this amount was unheard of. Our US representatives and Senators denounced any changes in health insurance reform. At this going rate. My well planned retirement will zero out in 7 years. I made a good living as a construction line-man turning your lights back on after ice, snow, wind, lightening, storms, and tornados.I did this Kansas wide but mostly on Westar property for 42 years. I was fortunate in my chosen trade, but there are many more in Kansas that didn't get my breaks in life. Call it Obama Care. Call it what you want. It is a start to health insurance reform, and it is time for our congress men and women to stop this Party of NO! NO! NO! INSURANCE FOR KANSAN! If they can improve the bill fine. But we will have this change with or without the presently elected office holders. Now some facts: Here is the biggest lies of this last year. Lie [1] The republicans did not have a say in the drafting of the Health Insurance Reform LAW. You noticed I didn't call it health care. Fact the repuglickings watered down the bill with 163 amendment. They voted NO. Lie [2] The bill was rammed through illegally. Fact: It was pasted with a majority vote of duly elected congress men and women using the same means the repuglicking used 20 of the 23 times reconciliation has been used. Lie [3] We as republicans had ideas of our own. Fact: The republicans came out waving three pages of what they called ideas and with no agenda to pay for these ideas. My auto policy I renew every 6 months is more than three pages. FACT; This present Health Care Reform LAW looks almost page for page what the republicans presented in 1994 to counter Hilary Care. Lie [4] The democrats forced an unread 2,600 pages bill out. War & Peace (I read it years ago) is 1284 pages contain (see below) about 600,000 words. That's 522 words a page The bills not the LAW contain 320,000 words. So even if the democrats used every big word in the Dictionary at 522 words a page the health care bill is?????????????????? GIVE UP ?????? 612 PAGES LONG 'War and Peace' – some people consider it the greatest book ever written, but most people recognize the novel because at 1,284 pages its length is often the butt of jokes. Now imagine trying to read something that long overnight." Actually, Leo Tolstoy's tome is longer than either bill. Full translated versions are nearly twice as long. The bill passed by the House is 319,145 words. The Senate bill is 318,512 words, shorter than the House version despite consuming more paper. Various versions of Tolstoy's novel are 560,000 to 670,000 words. Bush's education act tallied more than 280,000 words. By now, the full draft of Reid's bill that had circulated in the corridors and landed so prominently on Republican desks has been published in the Congressional Record in the official and conventional manner. The type is small and tight. No hernias will be caused by moving this rendering of the bill around. Unfurling it on the Capitol steps would not be much of a spectacle. THE FULL DRAFT READ INTO THE RECORDS? It's 209 pages. Sbatts1 on "Web Site" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=2#post-10 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:15:23 +0000 Sbatts1 10@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ Man get the members involved. Bring this up at Retiree's and union meeting good way to stay in touch Sbatts1 on "American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund 2009" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=4#post-8 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:33:50 +0000 Sbatts1 8@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ I want to thank all members of Local 304 for their donations to the American Legacy Scholarship Fund this year. I was able to raise $3,000 Kansas raised $46,000 and nationally we raised $609,000 plus for the dependant childrend of service members killed in the line of duty. You make me feel proud to be a member of local 304. Thanks Battman Sbatts1 on "Web Site" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=2#post-7 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:19:42 +0000 Sbatts1 7@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ I just found the Forum. I didn't know it existed. The 304 site was down 2 plus months Sbatts1 on "Health Care" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=3#post-6 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:17:57 +0000 Sbatts1 6@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ Hard_Head I can't believe no one responded to this. I was a lineman 42 years. Under Lineco I got the best treatment around. Disbaled and retired my lineco cost me $435 a month and medicare part B cost Ruby $75 and me another $75. Thats almost $600 a month you have to look forward to. Check with Paul or Rudy. They won't steer you wrong and if Obama doesn't get his health care bill pasted, your looking at one messed up economy. Been there done that. Battman and Ruby Hard_Head on "Health Care" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=3#post-5 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:27:34 +0000 Hard_Head 5@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ What happens when the the people of our state want to go with socialized health care. What will happen to my negotiated benefit? Hard_Head on "Web Site" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=2#post-4 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:20:49 +0000 Hard_Head 4@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ there need to be more people to speak up and say the way it is? duder7 on "Web Site" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=2#post-3 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:40:38 +0000 duder7 3@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ We need more pictures. karlman01 on "Web Site" http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=2#post-2 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:37:36 +0000 karlman01 2@http://www.ibewlocal304.com/bbpress/ What do you think of the new web site? How's the layout? Is there anything missing? Speak up!