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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

Midnight Writer

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4. My company used to post these misleading earnings numbers around contract time.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Aug 9, 2023, 01:32 PM

Aug 2023

The number they posted was more than twice my actual gross pay. It included my sick leave (which I never used) and vacation pay (and health insurance and projected pension payout and uniform allowance and training expense and holiday pay and life insurance.

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Great News for the drivers yankee87 Aug 2023 #1

Customers have nothing to do with profits? MichMan Aug 2023 #2

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That wasn't what the post I replied to said.... MichMan Aug 2023 #5

I stand by what I said yankee87 Aug 2023 #6

My company used to post these misleading earnings numbers around contract time. Midnight Writer Aug 2023 #4

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