Linemen Just Went on Strike in NC After NOT being Paid for 8 Weeks by FEMA

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It reminds me of Yellow Freight. They just shutdown stranding thousands of drivers on the road with defunct fuel cards.

Many just dropped their loads and dead-headed as close to home as they could get, parked their tractor, and got a ride home the rest of the way.

Uh, that was not a strike. The company went under.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Obviously the companies the linemen work for have no such contracts. Linemen generally work for municipalities. Normally city or county workers, like linemen take time off to help out in disasters. The time off is unpaid.

Where did you get that silly idea? Everywhere I lived the electrical, cable, and other utilities usually send their crews to disaster areas often before storms even hit. They have a compact to support each other. We had power crews from all over the US when an ice storm hit my area years back. We just had electrical crews from Florida arriving in Tennessee during our tornado outbreak last year.

 

[AHZ]

Yeah, it is a pretty fucked I’m company. They bring at an absolutely minimal profit. They often cannot even book outside line crews for storm work due to financial issues. I won’t bore you with the details.

I’m guessing the company is banking on FEMA coming in and covering the expenses. Absolutely disgusting to see these line workers getting screwed by their employer.

by fema.

don't get it twisted.

 

[Dragonlady]

Many thanks to incompetent team Biden-Harris-Mayorkas. What a total Clown show.

FEMA has NOTHING to do with them not being paid. Their EMPLOYERS HAVEN'T PAID THEM.

The company, Next Era Communications, contracted crews and bucket trucks from across the country beginning in early October to help Western North Carolina rebuild after Helene.

Miguel Burgos, who owns Next Era, told News 13 that Next Era is contracting with MasTec, who is contracting with Spectrum.

He said his people have not been paid for work they did between October 7-13 despite entering into a payment term called a Net 14 with MasTec, which they told News 13 would have them paid 15 days after they filed their first invoice. . . . .

News 13 also reached out to MasTec and Charter Communications, Spectrum's parent company, for comment. Neither company has answered News 13's questions about why the linemen say they did not get paid on time for their work in early October.

Work stoppage resolved after linemen demand full compensation for recovery efforts

News 13 took several calls on Wednesday, Nov. 30 from linemen who said they were not being compensated, despite having worked long hours over several weeks.

wlos.com

You're a lying piece of shit Hollie and not for the first time. Who's paying you, you treasonous piece of anti-American garbage????

 

[Hollie]

FEMA has NOTHING to do with them not being paid. Their EMPLOYERS HAVEN'T PAID THEM.

Work stoppage resolved after linemen demand full compensation for recovery efforts

News 13 took several calls on Wednesday, Nov. 30 from linemen who said they were not being compensated, despite having worked long hours over several weeks.

wlos.com

You're a lying piece of shit Hollie and not for the first time. Who's paying you, you treasonous piece of anti-American garbage????

Another of your frantic tirades, you desperate, attention seeking, useless piece of Trudeau blackface, trash.

 

[Hollie]

by fema.

don't get it twisted.

Rumor: Line workers working to restore power in North Carolina went on strike because FEMA had not paid them for weeks. | FEMA.gov

This is false. FEMA does not pay line workers directly. Electrical cooperative, private electrical or private communications and cable companies pay their employees and contractors. In some situations, FEMA may reimburse eligible rural electrical cooperatives providing a governmental service for...

www.fema.gov

“In some situations, FEMA may reimburse eligible rural electrical cooperatives providing a governmental service for expenses resulting from a disaster through Public Assistance grants, but the agency does not pay workers directly.”

 

[AHZ]

Rumor: Line workers working to restore power in North Carolina went on strike because FEMA had not paid them for weeks. | FEMA.gov

This is false. FEMA does not pay line workers directly. Electrical cooperative, private electrical or private communications and cable companies pay their employees and contractors. In some situations, FEMA may reimburse eligible rural electrical cooperatives providing a governmental service for...

www.fema.gov

“In some situations, FEMA may reimburse eligible rural electrical cooperatives providing a governmental service for expenses resulting from a disaster through Public Assistance grants, but the agency does not pay workers directly.”

but people are talking about FEMA paying out in general.

this detail does not change the overall argument.

this is just another Dem idiotic word game.

this is why you're losing.

 

[Hollie]

but people are talking about FEMA paying out in general.

this detail does not change the overall argument.

this is just another Dem idiotic word game.

this is why you're losing.

FEMA is the agency in charge of emergency management. You seem to want excuses for the inability of the Biden-Harris administered agency to actually do their job.

 

[AHZ]

FEMA is the agency in charge of emergency management. You seem to want excuses for the inability of the Biden-Harris administered agency to actually do their job.

there is no excuse for it.

the administration sucks and would rather spend FEMA money on illegals.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

You can't get any DUMBER than a RWNJ.

FEMA doesn't pay workers, they pay companies.
Companies sign a contract to do the work.
If workers aren't getting paid, it isn't FEMA's fault.
It's the company doing the work.
THEY signed the contract and evidently, agreed to its terms.
Somehow RWNJ's will find a way to blame the "Gubmint".

 

[Dragonlady]

Another of your frantic tirades, you desperate, attention seeking, useless piece of Trudeau blackface, trash.

You didn’t refute a single word of it you lying paid shill.

When you go straight to insults, I know you’ve been caught red-handed yet again.

 

[Hollie]

You didn’t refute a single word of it you lying paid shill.

When you go straight to insults, I know you’ve been caught red-handed yet again.

There’s nothing to refute in your emotional tirades. You’re like an ankle biting mutt, spamming threads because you’re desperate for attention. Your emotional meltdowns are drenched in the revulsion you have for yourself which you attempt to project onto others.

 

[Hollie]

You can't get any DUMBER than a RWNJ.

FEMA doesn't pay workers, they pay companies.
Companies sign a contract to do the work.
If workers aren't getting paid, it isn't FEMA's fault.
It's the company doing the work.
THEY signed the contract and evidently, agreed to its terms.
Somehow RWNJ's will find a way to blame the "Gubmint".

You can’t be a dimmer moron than a leftist fraud. If employees are not being paid because FEMA is not doing their job, that’s the fault of FEMA. Say the words out loud as it might help you concentrate.

Federal Emergency Management Agency.

As is typical, leftists will look for excuses when the incompetent Biden-Harris clown show can’t manage anything.

 

[JohnDB]

Why wouldn't their companies be paying them and the company would get reimbursed by whoever they have the contract with?

I doubt if they are FEMA employees.

Something stinks.

Yes...
Most contractors have a line of credit they make payroll out of and the General Contractor makes payments along the way to subcontractors using his own line of credit. Several loans are required to make construction/restoration happen. Nobody has an endless supply of money on tap. Everyone is bonded and the bonding company ensures that the work is being done according to the money loaned.

However....this is a gubberment job.
And if Fema has missed payments to the General Contractor....the whole thing comes crashing down over a few weeks....like this article has said. IOW FEMA hasn't made loans or payments to anyone....only promises to process paperwork.

Then the General Contractor figures out that the best way to make money is by utilizing his bond and get out of the contract and go make money on another project elsewhere. The Government is a very tricky place to make money on construction contracts....it's not for every contractor. Most go bankrupt trying to do good work.

 

[Marener]

If employees are not being paid because FEMA is not doing their job, that’s the fault of FEMA.

Prove that’s what happened.

 

[Moonglow]

Many thanks to incompetent team Biden-Harris-Mayorkas. What a total Clown show.

Normally it takes ninety days to get paid by the feds, the contractor must cover the funds until paid.

 

[Moonglow]

Yes...
Most contractors have a line of credit they make payroll out of and the General Contractor makes payments along the way to subcontractors using his own line of credit. Several loans are required to make construction/restoration happen. Nobody has an endless supply of money on tap. Everyone is bonded and the bonding company ensures that the work is being done according to the money loaned.

However....this is a gubberment job.
And if Fema has missed payments to the General Contractor....the whole thing comes crashing down over a few weeks....like this article has said. IOW FEMA hasn't made loans or payments to anyone....only promises to process paperwork.

Then the General Contractor figures out that the best way to make money is by utilizing his bond and get out of the contract and go make money on another project elsewhere. The Government is a very tricky place to make money on construction contracts....it's not for every contractor. Most go bankrupt trying to do good work.

Correct...

 

[Moonglow]

A lot of folks aren’t gonna like this answer….

Phone/Cable Providers; These compnies largely want out of the poles and wires business, with the exception of high speed internet and Verizon’s FIOS offering. They definitely want out of the pole business. Many are selling or even giving their interest in their utility poles to the electric utilities. That means the phone and cable companies no longer have to set/replace poles. That saves them a lot of money. It also allows them to reduce physical assets both in terms of people and products.

Electric Companies: Electric utility companies are being expected to do far more with the same or less investment. Between distributed generation (solar/wind), increased reliability, faster response to outages, etc… the public and regulators want these companies to spend massive amounts of money while not always allowing the companies to retrieve that money from rate payers.

My electric was out two weeks and we paid the same rate had it been on to help cover the cost, it was a co-op.

 

[Moonglow]

Why isn't Kamala up in the NC mountains dealing with this, and making sure the linemen get paid?

This is part of the Harris-Biden Regime's responsibilities.

you are amiss of the who, when, where, and how of the operation.

 

[Hollie]

Prove that’s what happened.

Why don’t you scold the lineman who haven’t been paid. Prove they have been paid.