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Union Cops want 9/11 off or extra $$$$

Inclag

Inclag

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Sep 9, 2001
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Union wants 9/11 off or extra $$ to show up

PEABODY, Massachusetts (AP) -- Police in Peabody, Massachusetts, could be getting holiday pay on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in what may be a first-of-its-kind contract provision.

A proposed new contract between the city and the police union would make the anniversary a paid holiday. The proposed contract still needs budgetary approval from the city council.

Officers would receive an extra 25 percent pay for working September 11.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/22/holiday.pay.ap/index.html


Mmike, how long until the Boeing Union workers push to get 9/11 off???? I think it's only fair....
 
dante

dante

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Feb 13, 2004
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johnbryanpeters said:
9/11 has become a goddam religion.

Time to get over it, folks! :disgust1:
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At first I thought it would be good to have that as a national holiday, to stop and remember the terrible things that we went through on that day.

Then I stopped and thought about our current holidays, and how this would just be another excuse for a summer BBQ like Labor Day/Memorial Day/4th of July. "Hey everybody, come on over for our 9/11 party, BBQ outside if its nice or we'll party inside if it rains. Burgers and dogs will be provided but supply your own beer..." :disgust1:

No thanks, I'd rather just go to work.
 
Cant Climb

Cant Climb

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May 9, 2004
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9/11 should be recognized (obviously) but extra $$ or a day off is nonsense.

There should be a national moment of silence or prayer (which ever floats your boat). Giving people a day off they would treat as a "personal day".....kind of disrespectful IMO.....
 
stoney

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I'm still waiting for Dec 7 to be a holiday. It's been 67 years, you figure they would have made it official by now.
 
stoney

stoney

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Ignerant sob's...
A day that shall live in infamy. Apparently not for modern Americans.
 
narlus

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cool things that happened on Dec 7th, according to wikipedia:


1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1963 - Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as "The Blue Marble" as they leave the Earth.
1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.

not so cool occurrences on that day:

1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 - Holocaust (Shoah): Extermination of Jewish people at the death camp of Chelmno begins.
1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
1993 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1999 - The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.


notable death:
1980 - Darby Crash, American punk-rock musician (b. 1958)
 
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