"Dollar Bill Binnie"

Where did $ Binnie make the jobs (0.00 / 0)

Some where I read Binnie outsourced our jobs to Mexico---ANY ONE HAVE THE DATA?????

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by: tchair @ Sat May 29, 2010 at 14:36:19 PM CDT

Screwing Workers Over (4.00 / 2)

Yes.  Mr. Binnie most definitely outsourced jobs to Mexico.  He also screwed over his employees in ways that are totally and utterly repugnant.  See below. . . .

Questions for Mr. Binnie (4.00 / 10)
Bill Binnie has been a successful businessman for the past quarter century.  He clearly knows how to make money -- and I, for one, believe that financial analysis and value realization are useful skills for any prospective policymaker.
But Mr. Binnie has a problem: He doesn't have a whole lot of respect for the workers who made him rich.  He busts unions, fires capriciously, and places his own exhorbitant financial lust ahead of his employees' needs.  If he wants to represent New Hampshire workers, he needs to answer questions about his record.  Such as:

1. Excessive Pay: In 1992, during a severe economic recession, your company - Carlisle Plastics Management Corp. -- lost $6.3 million.  How did you justify paying your self $1.5 million in salary while your company was struggling in a price war, and while your employees were fearing for their jobs? (Plastics News, 8/94)

2. Firing Union Organizers: Mr. Binnie, in March 1993 your Tijuana-based plant, Plasticos Bajacal, fired three employees for distributing literature advocating formation of an independent union.  The Washington Post reported that as many as 10 other workers were axed for engaging in union advocacy.  How can you claim to respect New Hampshire workers when you have so vociferously opposed the rights of your employees to bargain collectively?  (Washington Post, 10/27/93)

3. Minimum Wage: An employee at Plasticos Bajacal showed a Post reporter a pay stub indicating that she earned 13 pesos ($4.25) per day.  Does your record of paying workers subsistence wages mean that you oppose our minimum wage of $7.25/hour? (Washington Post, 10/27/93)

4. Worker Intimidation: Did you direct managers at Plasticos Bajacal to intimidate workers who voted for an independent union by identifying them publicly -- a practice revealed by the San Diego Union-Tribune? (San Diego Union-Tribune, 12/23/93)

5. Fixing Union Elections: Union organizers at Plasticos Bajacal claimed that your managers offered $33 (1 1/2 weeks wages) to each worker who voted against an independent union?  Do you endorse such a practice?  If so, how do you sleep at night? (San Diego Union-Tribune, 12/15/93)

6. Abandoning US Workers: When you moved jobs from A&E Plastics to Mexico in 1989, what did you do to assist the workers whose livelihoods you destroyed in order to line your own pockets?  Please provide specifics -- retraining support, etc.

If Mr. Binnie enters the US Senate race, New Hampshire voters will ask him these -- and many other -- questions.  He will be asked to account for his record, and to discuss how it will influence his decisions as a Senator.  

More to come. . . .  

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 00:41:55 AM EST
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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Sat May 29, 2010 at 16:03:52 PM CDT

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brief moment of nostalgia (4.00 / 1)

I remember when "Dollar Bill" meant Bill Zeliff.  

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by: susanthe @ Sat May 29, 2010 at 16:00:56 PM CDT

So, has Mr. Binnie made himself available to be asked (0.00 / 0)

these questions or is he running a stealth campaign in the media?  
The country club set may well be happy to send him out of state again, but our cloth coat Republicans can't be keen to have him represent them.
People who fail at business should stop looking to public service for a personal bailout.

Yes, failure is variously defined.  A leader who does not insure that his followers prosper is a failure.

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by: hannah @ Sun May 30, 2010 at 04:17:28 AM CDT