{"id":839,"date":"2008-08-28T14:12:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-08-28T14:12:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:12:29","slug":"82708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"8\/27\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Backroad Tour cont:<\/strong> \u00a0 We headed further west where we interviewed Clyde, Ohio’s Dave Woodruff. \u00a0 He is the founder of the organization Blue Collar Community<\/em>. \u00a0 He is also a former employee of the Whirlpool Corporation, which has it’s main plant in Clyde. \u00a0 Woodruff said when he worked at Whirlpool the company went to profit sharing, which meant the employees would get shareholder statements — showing, among other things, how much money the guys (and gals) in corporate were making in comparison to the workers on the floor. \u00a0 “They’d get millions, and we’d get a lunch box,” Woodruff said of the salaries, perks. \u00a0 The CEO, especially, was “knocking down big<\/em> bucks,” he said. \u00a0 So Woodruff sent him a letter protesting. \u00a0 One of the things Woodruff told me was that the company was cutting large amounts of money from different departments, but it didn’t seem the people in corporate were necessarily taking any significant cuts. \u00a0 Woodruff, through his organization, is now trying to organize blue collar workers in the area to come together and stand up for their rights. \u00a0 “There’s enough pieces of the pie to go around,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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