Workers at a massive new Shell plant were required to attend a speech by President Donald Trump in order to be paid — and were ordered not to protest.
Attendance was not mandatory for thousands of union workers at Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical plant north of Pittsburgh, but they had to forfeit pay for the day if they skipped, according to attendance and comportment information obtained by the newspaper.
“Your attendance is not mandatory,” one manager told workers, summarizing a memo that Shell sent to union leaders, but only those who showed up at 7 a.m., scanned their ID cards and prepared to stand for hours through lunch would be paid. “No scan, no pay,” workers were warned.
Workers were also told: “No yelling, shouting, protesting or anything viewed as resistance will be tolerated at the event. An underlying theme of the event is to promote good will from the unions. Your building trades leaders and jobs stewards have agreed to this.”
Trump was supposed to stick to addressing energy in his speech, but it morphed into a full-blown, free-range campaign speech. In his remarks, Trump took full credit for the plant, even though it was initially approved in June 2016, during the Obama administration.
Workers were also told: “No yelling, shouting, protesting or anything viewed as resistance will be tolerated at the event. An underlying theme of the event is to promote good will from the unions. Your building trades leaders and jobs stewards have agreed to this.”
Trump was supposed to stick to addressing energy in his speech, but it morphed into a full-blown, free-range campaign speech. In his remarks, Trump took full credit for the plant, even though it was initially approved in June 2016, during the Obama administration.
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