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Geico workers accuse company of aggressive
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Posted By: Ribicon, 9/30/2022 1:04:12 PM

Workers at an office of US insurance giant Geico have embarked on a unionization campaign in the face of what they say are aggressive and unfair management tactics to prevent them from forming a labor union. Workers at the office of about 2,500 employees in Amherst, New York, near Buffalo, say they have faced deteriorating working conditions in the past two years under Geico CEO Todd Combs. Combs is an investment manager and protege of billionaire Warren Buffett, whose firm Berkshire Hathaway owns Geico–known across the US for its ads featuring its English-accented gecko mascot. The organising effort, Geico United, went public shortly after Geico sent out

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American companies push Marxism with vigor, but when it comes to eating their own dog food, they fight like mad. Lefty Starbucks and Lefty Amazon spring to mind right away with the unionizing business

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 9/30/2022 1:05:30 PM (No. 1292105)
Any company that doesn't use aggressive tactics to deter unions is exceptionally stupid. I hope the union is deterred.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: itsonlyme 9/30/2022 1:15:55 PM (No. 1292114)
Lack of job security? Wait until the pink slips start arriving during the holidays.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: JHHolliday 9/30/2022 1:42:33 PM (No. 1292131)
Be interesting to know what Geico's loss ratio is (Premiums to claims. Insurance companies don't mind just breaking even since they make most of their money investing the premium dollars. If Geico is currently losing their a** on the insurance side while the market is tanking, this may play into their union resistance.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JHHolliday 9/30/2022 1:44:39 PM (No. 1292135)
Apologies for the second post, but I meant to add that Hurricane Ian will not help matters either.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: earlybird 9/30/2022 1:59:53 PM (No. 1292151)
GEICO used to be a good insurance company. No independent agents so premiums were lower than usual. Quality service via their regional company offices. As another poster said, no smart company welcomes unions. They fight them. See #1.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 9/30/2022 2:07:08 PM (No. 1292154)
I once had to counsel a young corporate accounting department employee who said she was worried about job security. “The only security any employee has is that the company needs the position they hold and the employee does a very good job of performing in that position."
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Safari Man 9/30/2022 2:13:52 PM (No. 1292164)
Buffet is a Dimocrat. But he doesn't like anything they stand for.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: CivilServant 9/30/2022 2:42:20 PM (No. 1292195)
Ooooh you poor stupid fools……Warren talks the Talk, but walking the walk? He77 no!!!!!!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: moebellini3 9/30/2022 2:43:11 PM (No. 1292197)
This is when you find out who the malcontents of a company are. The ones who want more pay for less work. The ones who want groundhog day as an official company holiday. The ones who want 12 weeks vacation after their first year. The ones you wished you never hired in the first place. You can always spot the pro union employees, they're the ones who yawn 30 times a day and fall asleep while standing at the water cooler. You know, the ones with all of the initiative. Get it yet...............
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 9/30/2022 4:48:26 PM (No. 1292278)
Really, who uses more aggressive and deceptive tactics than the union organizers?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: franq 9/30/2022 5:15:07 PM (No. 1292288)
Very enlightening, #3. Thanks.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: msliberty1937 9/30/2022 7:40:51 PM (No. 1292335)
I've had Geico for the last 8 years and my premiums have gone down each year. Maybe if you have no tickets, claims or accidents other companies offer the same. Hopefully, they can ward off a union takeover. I left teaching over 40 years ago when younger teachers managed to bring in the union to our school system. Within 2 years there was the first of several strikes, ultimately splitting a formerly congenial faculty into opposing camps. 'Scabs' suffered the most from what I learned from former friends. Look where the education system is now. Hang in there Geico!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: buckeye1 9/30/2022 8:33:49 PM (No. 1292343)
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, owned company. I worked for another BH company that was vociferously anti union. Funny a lib would be so anti union!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: danu 9/30/2022 10:41:23 PM (No. 1292372)
we've had this company a long time, only to be bombarded by ignorant ,vicious , wokester cretins in the past few years. however, it seems they're all entitled jerks everywhere - from supervisors on down.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Strike3 10/1/2022 2:28:43 AM (No. 1292392)
Pay close attention to the Geico rate increases if the unionization takes place. Unions cost a lot of money so they can pay the democrats their blood money.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: mifla 10/1/2022 4:14:41 AM (No. 1292407)
Unions have destroyed the car industry, the steel industry, and public education. Be careful what you ask for.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Lawsy0 10/1/2022 8:50:08 AM (No. 1292453)
Cute TV ads, great history of Government Employees Insurance Company, lousy future if they unionize. We're gonna miss you out there in the nowhere land all woke and broke.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: red1066 10/1/2022 9:03:10 AM (No. 1292462)
One of the top reasons so many companies moved manufacturing to other countries. No unions which result in cheaper labor costs. Cheaper labor however doesn't result in less expensive products.
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