ISS & ICA... STOP the wage and benefit theft.

WAGE & BENEFIT THEFT UPDATE

The petitions for our secret ballot elections were filed by the IBEW and the elections held by the Federal Government should be held in January. The quiet period during our card drive has ended and now we want you to know exactly what ISS and ICA take from you.

WAGE THEFT (FDOT District One)

Entitled:                 $19.04¹   per hour

Received:                   -8.25² per hour

Wage Theft            $10.79   per hour

24 hours X $10.79                        = $258.96 per bridge / per day

365 days X $258.96                     = $94,520.40 per bridge / per year

12 bridges³ X $94,520.40            = $1,134,244.80 minimum Annual Wage Theft

^1. U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Labor Statistics, 2012 Mean Pay, Florida Bridge Tenders.

^2. $8.00 was the prevailing wage for more than 1/2 the year, so the wage theft is actually more.

^3. Adding the 2 District One bridges manned only two shifts a day is another $126,027.20. You get the idea.

ISS & ICA pocketed more than a million dollars of our pay each year in District One.

BENEFIT THEFT

Don’t forget our lost Holiday Pay (State employees get 7 PAID holidays). Oh yeah, ISS/ICA pocketed your Vacation Pay too. Then there’s the provision for Sick Days they grabbed. Shall we discuss Health Care? They’re all benefits State employees receive. The State factors them into the staffing money ICA receives under their operating contract.  Why should we receive less than a State worker? Why should we receive less than the prevailing wage in our locality? Why didn’t ICA or FDOT help our appeal to ISS before we were forced to organize under a union? Why put up with this any longer?

TIME TO PAY UP

Even if you’re willing to forgive all the benefit theft… you’re still out $345.28 per pay check in wage theft. ISS & ICA are pocketing more than $8,977.28 of your wages this year alone! It’s time they pay us the wages to which the Federal government says we’re entitled and provide the same benefits as others performing jobs for the State. ISS & ICA owe us.

WE HAVE A MAJORITY (thank you for signing the authorization cards)

Only you can stop further exploitation, profiteering and wage theft by ISS and ICA, but only if enough of us (50%+1) join together and VOTE YES for the union to negotiate for us. It’s a secret ballot. It’s not a vote to join the union it only gives the IBEW authorization to negotiate. If we don’t like the contract we can reject it. If you don’t want to join the union you don’t have to. Let’s see what the union negotiators can do.

STOP EXPLOITATION.   STOP PROFITEERING.   STOP WAGE & BENEFIT THEFT.

Vote: YES!