Kalispell Montana Unionize Teletech

[@johnu78]

@COINTELPRO101 That's a very dark assessment of the area here. I can't agree with you on any of it. I do appreciate your comment though. Take care, John

[@COINTELPRO101]

@johnu78 I greatly respect what you are trying to accomplish, I hope you understand that. Unfortunately, Montana has some dire, perhaps fatal, flaws that even the best intentions can not overcome. The movie American Meth summed up perfectly our experience in Kalispell, I am sorry to say. The only edit I would have made to the movie is the Kalispell police selling meth openly in downtown Kalispell, maybe across from the Genki Japanese place or perhaps the Kalispell Grand Hotel.

[@johnu78]

@Vultur321 Thank you for your comment. It is my sincerest hope that this video will help inspire union building efforts inside the Kalispell call center.

[@johnu78]

@COINTELPRO101 I have to say I honestly don't know how to respond to your comment.

[@COINTELPRO101]

My wife and I escaped Kalispell, Montana in 2009 and it was the best move we could have made. We could see the town, and to a larger degree the state of Montana, turning into a meth-soaked cesspool. The movie "American Meth" was based to a large degree in Kalispell. Any union efforts will most likely be suppressed by the Kalispell Police, but only when they are not dealing drugs and collecting their ill gotten gains. My advice? Leave Montana before the state falls apart entirely.

[@johnu78]

@HansBooBee My thoughts are that the employees at Teletech need to contact the CWA and begin forming a union there. The abuses by management of the employees must come to an end!

[@johnu78]

@PowerForGood I'm hoping this video will inspire at least some of the employees to begin unionization efforts there.

[@COINTELPRO101]

@johnu78 I could see back in 2009 that Kalispell was on the verge of social and economic collapse, so we bailed out and moved back to Virginia. I would strongly advise anyone that is considering a move to Montana to cancel it and look into other areas. I have had Montana "natives" openly brag that the local sport was chasing people out of town. A HVAC guy in Cut Bank boasted, right to my face, that he had a warehouse filled with stuff from his renters that were forced out of town.

[@Holmes1313]

@HansBooBee MY thoughts are that before unions we had children working in factories and tons of employee abuses(most people with power don't do the right thing) but the unions can go a bit far.

[@johnu78]

@YYZpresto I see your point. But I think Teletech's Kalispell call center can be salvaged by having it unionized. A Teletech Union is the Only Solution :o)

[@jimbobubbadj]

Private businesses should be unionized. Before the unions there were robber barons and children working in factories. People worked for too many hours, in horrible conditions and for slave wages.

[@merc340sr]

I agree with most of what you said. The news is not all bad...many call centres are coming back to North America because many customers do not like people speaking with an accent. That said, working conditions in call centres need some improvement. Call centre workers must often endure verbal abuse from customers without saying anything. If they say anything, they are reported to management and disciplined. Workers are never praised for the vast majority of calls that go well.

[@johnu78]

@Holmes1313 I agree with you. We would never have gotten a minimum wage had it not been for the unions. At one time a person could support themselves on earning a minimum wage, those days are long gone though thanks to the Fed wrecking the currency's buying power.

[@carryclass]

@YYZpresto the business community is making sure we DO NOT have a free market by making sure the labor force is flooded with very high levels of immigrants who are willing to work for less.

[@johnu78]

@jimbobubbadj We're moving backwards as far as workers rights are concerned, that much is for sure!

[@carryclass]

@YYZpresto keep in miund that in a tight job marked employees cant reallly "choose" where they work. you are forced to take what is available. so why not force the company to pay a little better? you can bet the company belongs to "unions" or trade organizations like the chamber of commerce or the nfib. with 5 or more unemployed people for every job, what we have is hardly a "free market", it is a fully controlled "employers" market.

[@ericsartanahorner]

Teletech sucks, they refused me a job because I had a marijuana conviction(in Kalispell)... On that note, Applied Materials/Semitool is another company to look at. Crooked as hell there, I should know, worked at that shitehole for many years before being thrown away in mass layoff...

[@Vultur321]

Well.. they already sent it as far as ARGENTINA.. that's where the video you commented was shot.. That was me.. hi.. I wish unions worked the same way everywhere but down here would make the investment to go away.. In any case.. From the US perspective I have to agree.. The Union is the ONLY way to make them change their ways.. And they DO have tons of money.. I worked for OSC.. Ran the numbers on big accounts such as Best Buy JPMC and HSBC...