chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
lol.
9/19/2008 6:00:22 PM |
Nerdchick All American 37009 Posts user info edit post |
she's the lady from the elevator inspections!!! 9/19/2008 6:00:53 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
yup, that's the one. 9/19/2008 6:01:16 PM |
wilso All American 14657 Posts user info edit post |
all this time i thought she was a figment of my imagination 9/19/2008 6:01:37 PM |
dbmcknight All American 4030 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "BEST
ELECTED
OFFICIAL
EVER" |
9/19/2008 6:02:13 PM |
Nerdchick All American 37009 Posts user info edit post |
I've been happy so far with my elevator experiences, I'm voting Berry 08 ] 9/19/2008 6:03:19 PM |
BigEgo Not suspended 24374 Posts user info edit post |
i thought it said chuck berry 9/19/2008 6:05:08 PM |
Wraith All American 27257 Posts user info edit post |
Man it sucks riding elevators when I'm not in NC. I get kind of suspicious knowing that they don't have her signature in them. 9/19/2008 6:06:03 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
some dude wrote a song about her 9/19/2008 6:10:39 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
QNTMFRED, SKEW THIS POLL!
real voting fraud ftmfl 9/19/2008 6:12:37 PM |
Kitty B All American 19088 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "she's the lady from the elevator inspections!!! " |
my first thought, exactly. 9/19/2008 6:15:00 PM |
TroopofEchos All American 12212 Posts user info edit post |
I've been happy so far with my elevator experiences, I'm voting Berry 08 9/19/2008 6:19:45 PM |
wwwebsurfer All American 10217 Posts user info edit post |
Honestly, in NC she's probably more well known than George Bush. 9/19/2008 6:23:10 PM |
Vulcan91 All American 13893 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "some dude wrote a song about her" |
Dan Bryk9/19/2008 6:24:13 PM |
Nerdchick All American 37009 Posts user info edit post |
add Berry to Mt. Rushmore!!!! 9/19/2008 6:24:21 PM |
Sputter All American 4550 Posts user info edit post |
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=202819387
oh cherie berry my love for you is so scary
cherie berry
Quote : | " ROCKING
WITH
THA
DIGNITY
OF
LABOR
" |
[Edited on September 19, 2008 at 6:28 PM. Reason : ]]9/19/2008 6:27:19 PM |
killer tofu Veteran 499 Posts user info edit post |
LOLEVATOR 9/19/2008 7:48:04 PM |
d7freestyler Sup, Brahms 23935 Posts user info edit post |
Mozart, eh?
excellent choice. 9/19/2008 7:49:35 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
lololol. 9/19/2008 7:50:47 PM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
i wanna buy Rusty Jones a beer.
someone will know who i'm talking about 9/19/2008 7:58:02 PM |
Fareako Shitter Pilot 10238 Posts user info edit post |
She inspected the elevators I used at US Airways. 9/19/2008 7:59:06 PM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
she doesn't actually inspect them 9/19/2008 8:10:46 PM |
smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "i wanna buy Rusty Jones a beer." |
He inspects all the elevators on campus once a decade, whether they need it or not. 9/19/2008 8:29:47 PM |
HockeyRoman All American 11811 Posts user info edit post |
^^ LIES and blasphemy. Her signature is on it so she was totally there. 9/19/2008 8:43:39 PM |
FykalJpn All American 17209 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "After Cherie Berry was elected labor commissioner in 2000, she came to office with a different approach. A former co-owner of a company that made spark plug wires, she had campaigned on a promise to make the Labor Department less intrusive.
She summed up her political philosophy during the campaign with the quote: “The government that governs best governs least.”
In response to a budget crunch, the discrimination bureau cut back on travel and training. This allowed it to retain staff, says Skip Easterly, who headed the office from the mid-1990s to 2006.
The bureau began asking workers and employers to fill out written questionnaires instead of conducting in-person interviews. Investigations became less thorough.
“Frequently I felt if I had some more dollars to put more people on the road, we could do a better job,” Easterly said. “… It seems like you get better information when you can look into the eyes of the person you're talking to.”
The bureau's budget was about $618,000 in 2007, down nearly 25 percent since 1999, when adjusted for inflation.
Of 12 complaints examined in-depth by the Observer, filed from 2002 to 2007, investigators dismissed four without interviewing the complaining workers.
Labor officials say they give workers “every opportunity to present evidence supporting their claims.”
Kathleen Sumner, a Greensboro lawyer who has represented thousands of injured workers over the past two decades, says she believes politics has weakened the employment discrimination bureau.
She says investigators are hard-working and conscientious. But soon after Berry took office, she said, Easterly confided that he and his colleagues had been instructed to “back down” from aggressively pursuing REDA violations.
Easterly told the Observer said he recalls no such mandate, though he acknowledged that budget cuts made it harder for his office to do its work. “They didn't say don't enforce the law,” he said. “They just didn't give me the money to enforce it.”
Under Berry's leadership, the department has worked harder to negotiate with companies accused of retaliation. Settlements have increased from about 9 percent of all cases in 2000 to 14 percent in 2007.
By streamlining the investigative process, labor officials say, the bureau has also managed to clear most of the case backlog.
“Overall, our staff does a solid job enforcing REDA,” officials wrote in response to questions from the Observer.
But critics say Berry's department has been less willing to stand up for workers.
Today, when employers and workers don't reach settlements, the employment discrimination bureau sides with workers less than 1 percent of the time – down from 5 percent in 2000.
The Labor Department has not taken a REDA case to court on behalf of a worker since 2001." |
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/573/story/191970.html9/19/2008 8:58:24 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
ttt 10/14/2008 10:11:11 AM |
evan All American 27701 Posts user info edit post |
but my thread title is better
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST SON 10/14/2008 10:11:51 AM |
SaabTurbo All American 25459 Posts user info edit post |
^ STEP OUT DA BAR SON. 10/14/2008 10:12:11 AM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
KNOCK HIM OUT THE BOX, LUKE, KNOCK HIM OUT 10/14/2008 10:20:26 AM |
XSMP All American 16674 Posts user info edit post |
chembobusn@gmail.com
GO NUTS SON! 10/14/2008 10:46:09 AM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
OH BOY 10/14/2008 11:07:03 AM |
ambrosia1231 eeeeeeeeeevil 76471 Posts user info edit post |
facebook that whore 10/14/2008 11:10:18 AM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
Cherie Berry says YES to WORKERS and NO to BIG LABOR
Quote : | " Dear Friends,
In these tough economic times our businesses are under attack by Big Labor Unions. Legislation supported by my liberal, union backed opponent would take away our workers' basic right of a secret ballot election in Union Organizing.
Even Liberal icon George McGovern denounced the legislation as a violation of workers' rights.
Senator Barack Obama has said if elected this legislation would become the “law of the land”.
My opponent has said that this legislation would be a good tool to organize North Carolina companies.
Labor Unions – bad for business, bad for workers!
Protect North Carolina's proud “Right to Work” history. Help me defeat this big union threat to our livelihoods. I ask you for your vote on Tuesday, November 4th!
To help North Carolinians fully understand this threat to our businesses and workers, please share this message with your family and friends.
For more information please visit http://www.cherieberry.com to learn more, contribute, and continue to protect North Carolina workers and jobs.
Cherie Berry" |
lolol10/23/2008 3:25:01 PM |
Vix All American 8522 Posts user info edit post |
I miss my Sherri
Because I would call her sherri berry
[Edited on October 23, 2008 at 3:29 PM. Reason : .] 10/23/2008 3:29:15 PM |
swoakley All American 1725 Posts user info edit post |
She's also the lady from the minimum wage posters! 10/23/2008 3:31:43 PM |
BigHitSunday Dick Danger 51059 Posts user info edit post |
Thomas "" Lohan 10/23/2008 4:21:27 PM |
dustm All American 14296 Posts user info edit post |
in one of the parking deck vators at centennial her boobs and face have cigarette burns 10/23/2008 4:26:02 PM |
Sweden All American 12295 Posts user info edit post |
haha, cool
10/23/2008 4:49:57 PM |
drunknloaded Suspended 147487 Posts user info edit post |
i thought this was about a certain particular wolfwebber 10/23/2008 4:52:49 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
^^YES 10/23/2008 5:07:02 PM |
mytwocents All American 20654 Posts user info edit post |
Is this the same music as used on SNL for the Peyton Manning and Michael Phelps locker room speech? 10/23/2008 5:09:02 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
It's the Hartford Whalers's theme - Brass Bonanza 10/23/2008 5:12:53 PM |
joe_schmoe All American 18758 Posts user info edit post |
i miss Cherie Berry.
i dont even know who inspects elevators here in WA.
for all i know it could be some temp worker wating to land a UI programming job at Amazon.
10/28/2008 1:47:29 AM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Dear Friends,
In today's uncertain economic times, good news is hard to come by. But several weeks ago, the N.C. Rate Bureau announced that it would be lowering worker's compensation rates for our businesses. Why? Because of fewer claims as a result of fewer workplace accidents. That's GOOD NEWS for business and workers.
That also validates what I have been doing as your Commissioner of Labor. By partnering with the business community workplace injury/illness rates for the past seven years have been the lowest in the state's history and workplace fatalities are the lowest ever recorded. We have accomplished this by focusing on education and training. My liberal, union backed opponent prefers the opposite approach - more regulation and stiffer penalties, this is BAD NEWS for business and workers. I need your support in this upcoming election to continue our outstanding record of workplace safety and health.
For more information please visit http://www.cherieberry.com to learn more, contribute and continue to protect North Carolina workers and jobs.
I thank you for your support and look forward to serving you for yet another term!
Cherie Berry" | ]10/30/2008 9:22:35 AM |
punchmonk Double Entendre 22300 Posts user info edit post |
what a freakin awesome song!!!!!!!!!1111 I did vote for her!!
[Edited on October 30, 2008 at 9:25 AM. Reason : I am keeping this opened in a tab just so I can hear the whole song!]
[Edited on October 30, 2008 at 9:26 AM. Reason : I might put this song in multiple theads...haven't decided. ] 10/30/2008 9:24:28 AM |
punchmonk Double Entendre 22300 Posts user info edit post |
so ken is making this song his ring tone. AWESOME!! makes me happy. 10/31/2008 6:19:54 PM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
I voted for her 10/31/2008 6:20:09 PM |