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00SL2
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Biggie9 schreef:
I don't have a problem with them playing, as they are allowed by the sentence to attend school-related functions. Sports may be the only thing keeping those kids in school.
Did you see the document that was signed by the judge? Neither did I. All we have to go on is hearsay and what we can find at michiganlegislature.org about the Holmes Youthful Trainee program. When I looked there it didn't say "school-related functions" it said "...court may authorize work release or release for
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terrybankert
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Good Morning Flint #15871
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:13 am |
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andi03
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Terry:
How about the Michigan School Safety Laws? Aren't they applicable, I would hope that how big Flint is that they would have an agreement between local law enforcement...........opinion? Can ya tell I can't source it correctly....sheesh!! 
380.1308 Statewide school safety information policy.
Sec. 1308.
subsection #
(5) If provided in the statewide school safety information policy under this section, the prosecuting
attorney of a county shall notify a school district located in whole or in part in that county of any criminal or
juvenile court action initiated or taken against a pupil of the school district, including, but not limited to,
convictions, adjudications, and dispositions. This notification shall be made to either the school district
superintendent or to the intermediate superintendent of the intermediate school district in which the county is
located, as provided in the policy or by local agreement. If the notification is made to the intermediate
superintendent, the intermediate superintendent shall forward the information to the superintendent of the
school district in which the pupil is enrolled. Upon receipt of information under this subsection, a school
district superintendent shall share the information with appropriate school building personnel.
Edited to Add: Please don't tell me that this would be exempt under the Holmes Youthful Thingamajig Act.
For some reason, the image of the Movie "My Cousin Vinnie" comes into play, where Joe Pesci talks in his Bronx accent to Lurch, the judge......."The two 'yoots." "What?!" "Oh, excuse me the two yoooooouuuuttttthhhhs." |
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:46 pm |
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Does anybody else find it slightly hypocritical that in the sports section of today's Flint Journal, Rickey Hamptom complains that the future of the SWA football players will be ruined because employers can "google" their names.
I mean: doesn't Rickey and his reporter colleauges benefit on a daily basis from the concept of a "Free Press" and the Freedom of Information act?
You can't have it both ways Rickey. Pick your poison: either the flow of information is universally available, or we'll deal with the slippery slope of censorship and live in a world where somebody picks and chooses what is "safe" for you to digest.
SURELY you learned this concept in Journalism 101. ? |
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:54 pm |
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terrybankert
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Good Morning Flint/
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:17 pm |
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terrybankert
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Good Morning Flint
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Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:20 pm |
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| It is simply amazing the way the Flint Journal has gone about the business of trying to destroy any decent future these two young men may have and now they're after one of the moms. I understand she said she'd never been contacted about the suspensions from the school board or the superintendent and the FJ calls her questioning outrageous!!!!!! I hope the citizens who went to the meeting take rightful offense to being called "wrongheaded gaggle" by this racist newspaper. FJ has a lock on its ability to spew hatred by using it's editorial section, yet demeans ordinary citizens who exercise their right to use the process to question and express their concerns, which just happens to be the opposite of the FJ opinion. At one point I classified the FJ as being one notch above the National Enquirer....after this fiasco, they are certainly not worthy of being on the same newsstand as the other rag. Get a new story FJ....you've worn this one out! |
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Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:26 pm |
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00SL2
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SpeakNTruth schreef:
FJ has a lock on its ability to spew hatred by using it's editorial section, yet demeans ordinary citizens who exercise their right to use the process to question and express their concerns!
You can post your opinion in the Comments section of their online News Now blogs, Letters to the Editor, and Talkback. |
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Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:25 pm |
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terrybankert
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Good Morning Flint
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terrybankert
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Good Morning Flint
Terry Bankert
9/24/07
If you support organized labor as I do now is the time to pitch in as a community. If a strike occurs Flint area families will suffer economic hardship. I will offer free child support and parenting time advice for those on strike with now limited income and picket line duties.-Terry Bankert attorneybankert@yahoo.com
see:
http://flinttalk.com/viewtopic.php?p=16137#16137
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Union sets strike deadline at GM
UAW authorizes 11 a.m. ET walkout for its 73,000 members at nation's No. 1 automaker, although talks continue.
By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/24/news/companies/gm_uaw_strikedeadline/
September 24 2007: 6:23 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The United Auto Workers union set an 11 a.m. ET Monday strike deadline for its 73,000 members at General Motors late Sunday night, although talks between the union and the company were still ongoing.
The union has kept its members on the job at the automaker on an hour-by-hour contract extension since the previous pact with GM (Charts, Fortune 500) expired Sept. 14. But Sunday, as talks were reportedly making progress, the union leadership felt the need to call for a strike.
The company said in a statement that it was still hopeful of reaching a deal to avoid a shutdown. A company official told CNNMoney.com at 5:20 a.m. ET that the talks were continuing.
"The 2007 contract talks involved complex, difficult issues that affect the job security of our us work force and the long-term viability of our company," said GM spokesman Dan Flores. "We are fully committed to working with the UAW to develop solutions together to address the competitive challenges facing General Motors. We will continue focusing our efforts on reaching an agreement as soon as possible."
Shares of GM were up 0.4 percent in light trading in Frankfurt early Monday on news of the strike deadline.
The strike call does not affect operations at 1. Ford Motor (Charts, Fortune 500) or Chrysler Group. The union has granted those companies more formal extensions that require a three-day notice to end while they focused their efforts on reaching an agreement with GM.
Neither side would comment on the sticking point in the talks, although GM has been seeking to close its cost gap with nonunion automakers such as Toyota Motor (Charts) and Honda Motor (Charts) by shifting $51 billion in future retiree health care costs to a union-controlled trust fund.
Chris "Tiny" Sherwood, president of Local 652 in Lansing, Mich., said he got a call with the strike deadline just before 11 p.m. ET Sunday. He had not had any signal that there were problems before that call.
"They just said unless we're told otherwise, we're on strike as of 11 a.m.," he said "I guess they hit some kind of impasse. We'll be ready."
Sherwood's local about 3,000 of more than 4,500 members working at a GM plant in Lansing.
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger issued a statement early Monday morning in which he blamed GM's bargaining position for the union setting the strike deadline, saying that management was not addressing job security and other "mandatory issues of bargaining" raised by the union.
1. "We're shocked and disappointed that General Motors has failed to recognize and appreciate what our membership has contributed during the past four years," Gettelfinger said. "Since 2003, our members have made extraordinary efforts every time the company came to us with a problem: the corporate restructuring, the attrition plan, the Delphi bankruptcy, the 2005 health care agreement. In every case, our members went the extra mile to find reasonable solutions."
The union statement said its negotiators would stay at the table up through the 11 a.m. deadline.
While most analysts have said that a long strike at General Motors would be a crippling blow for the automaker's efforts to return its North American operations to profitability, the automaker is probably in relatively good position to weather a short strike.
David Healy, analyst with Burnham Securities, said he believes GM could take a strike of up to a month without a significant problem.
"It's sort of an odd thing, the first thing that happens with an automaker in case of a strike is their cash increases, as their payroll stops, and they still keep collecting cash for the cars that have been shipped," said Healy.
He believes the two sides are close enough that a strike, if it does in fact start, will be a short one.
"Days, not weeks or months, that would be my guess," he said.
Harley Shaiken, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, who specializes in labor issues, said he also thinks a strike, if it takes place, would be a relatively short one. The setting of the strike deadline could be a necessary step to reaching a new agreement, he added.
"This is meant to focus the talks and get a resolution," he said. "I think it indicates that we're in the end game of negotiations. This last line in the sand is meant to resolve things by 11 a.m. But a strike threat isn't simply theater, it's a credible alternative to an agreement."
He said he's not surprised the union cited job security concerns in its statement.
"It's both a contract and a social compact as far as they're concerned," he said. "The union wants a competitive GM, but it also wants jobs for its members."
The union has had job guarantees in past pacts with the Big Three automakers that essentially gave its members nearly full pay, even when their plants were shut down.
It was those guarantees that forced the company to pay members up to $140,000 each to buy them out when it moved to close plants, as it did during the life of the last contract. The union lost more than a third of its membership that worked at GM during the previous four-year deal due to the buyout packages.
The union is also believed to be seeking guarantees that GM will invest in plants in the United States, rather than shift production to plants outside the country.
If there is a strike, it would be the nation's largest since 87,000 workers at Verizon Communications (Charts, Fortune 500) walked off the job in August 2000, but that action did not shut down the company.
GM was last hit by a strike at its Flint, Mich., locals in 1998, a work stoppage by only 9,200 workers that was felt across most of GM's North American operations since they couldn't get the parts they needed to keep making cars and trucks.
The last strike by more than 70,000 workers that shut down a company's operations was the 1997 strike by 185,000 Teamsters at United Parcel Service.
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UAW sets new strike deadline against GM for 11 a.m. Monday
September 23, 2007
By DEE-ANN DURBIN
AP Auto Writer
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070923/BUSINESS01/70923052/1008/NEWS06
DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers set a deadline of Monday morning to strike General Motors Corp. if a new contract isn’t reached, even as the two sides continued bargaining late Sunday night, according to a local union Web site.
The deadline to reach an agreement was set for 11 a.m. Monday, according to a posting on the Web site of UAW Local 160 in Warren.
Talks were continuing as of 11 p.m., GM spokesman Dan Flores said. GM said in a statement Sunday night that it is working with the union to resolve issues.
“The contract talks involve complex, difficult issues that affect the job security of our U.S. workforce and the long-term viability of the company,” said the statement, which was posted on a GM Web site. “We are fully committed to working with the UAW to develop solutions together to address the competitive challenges facing General Motors. We will continue focusing our efforts on reaching an agreement as soon as possible.”
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said as recently as Friday that the union was trying to speed up negotiations and reach an agreement without a strike. The union may be trying to ratchet up the pressure on GM to get a deal done.
The UAW’s contract with GM was set to expire Sept. 14, but the union has been extending it on an hour-by-hour basis since then.
A local UAW official said earlier Sunday that negotiators have wrapped up work on most issues and were determining how much money GM must put into a trust fund for retiree health care that will be managed by the UAW. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
The health care fund — known as a Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association, or VEBA — would be a groundbreaking change for the auto industry and has been the major issue in this year’s negotiations. GM has around $51 billion in unfunded retiree health care costs but the company isn’t required to put the full amount into the VEBA. The UAW and GM have been wrangling over how much GM should put in and how much can be paid in cash or in stock.
The UAW picked GM as the lead company and potential strike target in the negotiations, which began in July. Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC have indefinitely extended their contracts with the union.
GM, which has about 339,000 UAW retirees and spouses, badly wants to pay the union to form the VEBA to get the health care liabilities off its books. In exchange, the UAW has sought production guarantees at U.S. plants.
The UAW represents 73,000 GM workers at 82 U.S. facilities nationwide.
If a tentative agreement is reached, local union leaders will meet for a briefing and then present it to their members. Any agreement would have to be ratified by a majority of GM’s UAW members.
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| 85% of their pay while on strike? Are you serioius? |
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Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:00 pm |
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terrybankert
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[quote="FlintConservative"]
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Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:59 pm |
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andi03
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| So the children are going to have to suffer, because someone did not save enough money to cover expenses for something like this? Parents brought children into this world to take care of them, not to take advantage of a loophole because of a lower paying time period because of a choice that someone made to go on strike......Just feel the warm fuzzies, now. |
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Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:54 pm |
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terrybankert
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Good Morning Flint
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