Publishers Printing

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Started in Louisville, KY Publishers Printing Company (PPC) is now located in Shepherdsville and Lebanon Junction, KY.  According to their web site they have over 65,000 sq feet and 1400 employees.  They are the largest employer in Bullitt County, KY.  Bullitt Co. is just south of Louisville and I think the number is over 1500 now.  I'm sure by now you are expecting a complaint from me.  What some call complaints, I call fighting for the working man.  You see,  The Unions and I do have something in common (coughs, BS).

1)  They run 24 hours a day, in three shifts.  Employees show up, work straight eight and go home.  No problem, right?  Well, the problem is they do not receive a lunch break.  Workers get three ten minute breaks. They fall on the 2nd, 4th, and 6th hour of the work day.  KY law states that an employee must be given a 10 minute rest period for every four hours worked and a "reasonable meal period between the third and fifth hour".  Now you tell me, is 10 minutes long enough for you to leave a work station get, get to a break area, heat your lunch/grab a sandwich and a soda, inhale it, and then get back to your station before the "bell rings"?  And oh yea, Heaven forbid that you have to stop utilize the latrine and/or just wash your hands before you eat?  I mean it is a printing house but why would you want to get all that ink/dust/filth off of your hands before you grab a sandwich or a bag of chips, right?

2)  I have sat in the local City Council meetings and watch them vote to raise residential taxes on our electric bills by over 200% but in the same meeting refuse to raise PPC by the same amount.  They get away with this nonsense because they are the largest employer in the county.  A county that would have been in a world of hurt if it wasn't for Ft. Knox and better paying jobs in Louisville or other surrounding areas that people can commute to and still come home at night.

3)  How on earth do they (according to their very own web site) break labor laws 1400+ times per day?  How do they get a lower tax increase than I do?  I'm not talking about usage, everyone knows/realizes they should get a break there, but in taxes?  If I have to pay 3% in tax why don't they?  And everybody thinks that GW and those evil Republicans give corporations a break!!  Truth is the city owns the local water and I'm sure they use just a little bit over there.  But you see, those are records that I can not get at.  I have been down there in person several times, I have written formally (three times), I have talked to the City Attorney,  I have talked to the KY State Attorney Generals Office, I have talk to the KY Dept. of Labor.........

Absolutely nothing, but I'm not going to stop!  The blog grows everyday and soon the right person will see the words that I type.