CPX shut down?

[shartley]

Originally posted by spantol


Heh. You've never played Bedlam, have you?

The netting Natrix is talking about serves as "walls" inside of the buildings. It's a huge nuisance, and does absolutely nothing for safety.

[Star_Base_CGI]

Kudos to you guys for making demands.

Make a list of demands and dont go back till you get them.

1. 40 hours a week for current employees.
2. Grounds maintainance to fill the 40s if they goto weekends to keep you part time. Equipment, trimmers and safety equipment.
3. $100 for safety equipment, goggles and ref shirts.
4. HMO health plan for injured employees.
5. Competitive Price point for Brass eagle paint. $60 a case. No price gouging on Buy in of paint. Throw out or give away all paint from Shatnerball.


Oh yeah and get it in writing.

[fire1811]

Added netting, and a second level to Bedlam, lowering the enjoyability of playing that field. Is this BE's fault I don't know.

actually this was all forests idea.
i was out at cpx before it even opened as the team i used to play on was sponsored from Challenge. anyway as we walked through there those where some of the things he said HE wanted to add in the future. a second floor and wall netting. just a little fyi

[Tattoo13]

Originally posted by Star_Base_CGI
Kudos to you guys for making demands.

Make a list of demands and dont go back till you get them.

1. 40 hours a week for current employees.
2. Grounds maintainance to fill the 40s if they goto weekends to keep you part time. Equipment, trimmers and safety equipment.
3. $100 for safety equipment, goggles and ref shirts.
4. HMO health plan for injured employees.
5. Competitive Price point for Brass eagle paint. $60 a case. No price gouging on Buy in of paint. Throw out or give away all paint from Shatnerball.


Oh yeah and get it in writing.

That is all fine and dandy, and would be a great deal for the refs, and probably work well for the conditions at the feild.
It ain't gonna happen!
They are going on strike, they are going to be replaced, only belonging to a union protects you from that. They are unskilled labor, and in a job market such as this, it is easy to replace skilled employees, so yes CPX lost some money this weekend and this week, but all the employees will be replaced and they will go right on doing business as usual. It amazes me how many people think they have big leverage, when what they offer as employees is not much, and they have a job lots of people would love to work.
They are obviously making money how things are run now, and they are going to try and make more by changing the structure of things. Getting a bunch of full-time employees who are now going to expect benifits, and you have to pay umemployment and disability on, then dropping prices, and handing all the employees $100 to buy equiptment that you can make them buy anyway, is not the way to make more money.
I think it is sad that a field with such potential is ran like BE runs their other side of the business, ie: focus towards newbies, and dropping the quality of the experiance, but it is not going to change.

[fire1811]

oh and one other thing

in order for it to be considered a "Stike" you must be
employeed. ALL the refs that where involved in this
where fired. oops new jobbie time.

[nerobro]

They were employed at the time they went on strike. Teh fact they were fired becuase of it has no relevance on the situation.

Welcome to the pain of standing up for yourself. :-/ good luck guys.

[joez]

we were not just fired, we were banned too

75% of us knew that we were to be fired, the rest, like me, were putting in our 2 weeks and quitting anyways. they fired and banned 42 employees. we were not just doing this for us. it was for the players, and also future employees.

[fire1811]

man i drove by suday and i think it would have helped you
guys a little if you atleast had a sign or something out there. it looked like it was just a bunch of ppl sitting around chattin.

so are you guys going back out like everyweekend or just
this one?

oh well good luck

[joez]

yeah, we had signs saturday, but the kid who had them in his car didnt show up sunday.

but no, we are not doing this every weekend, we will be out there one more time saturday, and that should be it.

hey fire, was that you that was hanging out the window of the blazer yelling "we got 6 cases of paint to do your job"?

[shartley]

Originally posted by joez
we were not just fired, we were banned too

75% of us knew that we were to be fired, the rest, like me, were putting in our 2 weeks and quitting anyways. they fired and banned 42 employees. we were not just doing this for us. it was for the players, and also future employees.

[shartley]

Originally posted by joez
yeah, we had signs saturday, but the kid who had them in his car didnt show up sunday.

but no, we are not doing this every weekend, we will be out there one more time saturday, and that should be it.

hey fire, was that you that was hanging out the window of the blazer yelling "we got 6 cases of paint to do your job"?

[fire1811]

lol nah bro i own a real vehical, a chevy truck and a big one too

if i would have know you where there i would have stopped to meet ya. AO members are AO members

[joez]

actually, we have PERMISSION from the farm owner across the street from the park to park our cars in her driveway and use her property. we have yet to cross the property, and didnt i say we were banned. by being banned we cannot cross the property, and if we do, JPD gets called. we are not causing problems, or blocking the entrance. we have the right to a peacefull assembly.


and fire, if you have the truck i am thinking of, that thing was nice.

[fire1811]

its was a big black chevy 2500HD 2001
i reved er up a little tryin to catch up to a buddy of mine


and it was a rather peacefull "protest" they didnt even say a word to ppl coming in. that i heard or saw anyway

[Star_Base_CGI]

If I went to a park like CPX and I saw people protesting I wouldnt play there. Its going to hurt their sales. You guys should do it for at least a month because they arent going to be able to hire 42 people like that and they have the $200,000 in games.

By picketing your letting everyone know what jerks they are.

Dont listen to the people that say its useless. You could get hurt reffing and you guys deserve to be treated better. People think jobs like gerocery store or whatever are useless. Let them go hungry for a week. Most of them dont know what its like to work for a living anyway.