At least some of the workers who attended the speech were instructed not to protest the President, who told the crowd of workers at the Royal Dutch Shell plant he would be imploring their union leaders to support his reelection. The instructions to the workers came in a memo, a copy of which was obtained by CNN's Polo Sandoval from a congressional source. That source was given the memo by a person in Beaver County, Pennsylvania -- the site of the plant.
Will the economy be Trump's achilles heel? 05:02The Tuesday Trump speech was an official White House event -- not a speech sponsored by the reelection campaign. Trump told the audience at the plant Tuesday that they should oust their union leaders if they declined to support him. "I'm going to speak to some of your union leaders to say, 'I hope you're going to support Trump.' Okay?" Trump said.
Land of the free.
Pathetic and abusive
So donnie.
I sure wouldn't waste may PTO 2 listen to this racist gas bag spout racial stereotypes and gender bashing and lie to me about how good the country is doing when we slip further into hell everyday
Shell shock
We are becoming a socialist country
BlessedTr3 don’t trust these bunch, they’re all about fake news.
BOYCOTT SHELL
And where were the Unions in this?
Typical of Trump. His way or the highway
This is disgraceful and if the union backed this, those people should be replaced!
Reprisal.
Like to see that stand up in court. Time for a class action guys.
Old news
Curious to see how Shell is going to spin this. I'm glad that I never buy gas from them if this is how they treat their workers.
All half a dozen? Wow.
America with Trump is becoming like country run by dictators. Like Trump or loose your wages !
Popularity can't be bought ! Dont coerce honest government employees !
Next he’s gonna pay people to vote for him. He just can’t deal with being the worst president in history.
Freedom ?!!!!!?
Toilets LIARS !
Fake news
Ok and? You don’t get a free day at work when a guest speaker shows up
By the responses it is clear so many don’t even know how PTO works today in their own job. You can’t get OT if taking PTO in a day. That’s the policy at the majority of employers.
Chairman Trump
CNN fake news media 🤮
I would make sure to have an extra vacation day to stay home in a case like this...
Fake news
Only way to avoid a EmptySeatsMagaTour
Really?🤔 SMH
Fake news is the enemy of people.
I would quit!
What a Nazi!
They would need to pay me double my day's pay to have me attend even 5 minutes of his event.....and even then, I would have to give it a great deal of thought!
Patriotism over Pay !! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yea. Ok. Sure
Where's Fredo?
It is common practice for companies not to pay overtime on PTO. It has nothing to do with President Trumps visit or the Union. Maybe these Congressmen should get a real job.
Ugh. Nearing totalitarianism.
It's Messed Up When These Corporations/Companies/Businesses Force Their Employees To Vote A Certain Way SenSanders This Is Truly Un American&People Have Been Fired Because Of This. It's A Right Wing Tactic Because The Elections I Have Been Alive For I Don't See It From The Left.
Must be liberal boss
Were they allowed to talk to the Press?
The scumbags supporters won't believe that for a second.
BoycottShell what a terrible company Shell to demand this of your employees. I heard they didn’t get lunch, but, got paid time and a half if they attended. Gee no wonder gas prices are so high. Gas company paying employees to attend a Trump event. Shell lost my business.
Ignorant people bring nations down
Boycott shell...
Another CNN lie.
Whatever happen to freedom I think it’s very wrong that Shell petro chemical plant wanted to Deduct pay, take a vacation day if you don’t want to attend a Donald Trump rally. That is undemocratic. Dictatorship no rights Donald Trump have this country worder.
Everyone should be there in support of the boss
Shouldn’t this be against labor laws?
Hey Lying CNN you mast be talking obviously about Joe BIden! Workers were told if they did not show up for the Trump event, they would have to use some of their paid time off or receive no pay at all for the day?Lying 🤥
Another fakery by the Corrupt Network News (CNN). When are you ppl gonna learn?
Fake news again
I had told my employees before the 2016 elections thatif Trump won the presidency, even if they did not Vote for him, EVERYONE will receive a 3% pay raise. And they all receive the raise, no bars. If an employer wants their employees to listen to the president, what’s wrong?
And when the President explains.... it will be completely different than want the media reported.
Fake news as always!
Wawwww this happens on the USA?
Now we all know the real reason people show up at his rallies other than for the pure entertainment value of having a comedian as a president.
See, everything is fake with him
LoriSums His action is nothing new, hence the amount of supporters, particularly people of color, during his 2017 run. Smdh
'Workers told that they would not recieve overtime if they did not show up to their place of work.'
Getting paid to attend this unqualified potus spew his vile rhetoric? Makes sense as to why educated people would be there!
It's a joke, right?
He need some cyanide
Fascism at work.
Calling BS.
This is why CNN is a five 💩💩💩💩💩 network.
Fake news, as always.
Everyone has to smile and be there or we will put you in an education camp
Lies
I would file a grievance so fast! Next I would contact my attorney.
Do people take cnn seriously anymore? At least the onion is at least semi funny.
Wait isn’t that how jobs work? Typically if I don’t show up to work I don’t get paid either unless I use PTO.
Is that even legal?
To show solidarity for all of those workers, & to show big companies that our votes cannot be bought, we should all BOYCOTT SHELL OIL for being such an evil tool for their use against their employees. This would also serve as a starting point to create laws to stop all lobbying!!
So besides having screwed govt workers now he’s doing the same to factory workers. And 39% still support this monster!
Wow really? Shell This is how you treat your employees?
What a bunch of azztards running that company. If they had a strong union that kind of nonsense would not occur.
republicans would have it no other way, paying people to show up so it looks like somebody cares. Notice how nobody showed up for lumpy’s inauguration.
Fake news.
Sounds like their place to report to work was the event, I see no problem with that, they got paid to hear a speech
Fake news, God Don Lemon being sued, for attacking a man, & for being Volga actions against the man
that's our authoritarian President Loco at work
FakeNewsCNN is at it AGAIN. Trump2020 MAGA Trump2020LandslideVictory Trump2020Landslide
So in other words, security was a high priority with known crazy leftists being kept at bay. Seems pretty reasonable considering the lefts passed behavior
That is the ONLY way These Fools show up to a Trump Rally...Force! Resist
.........fake news......... ...........fake news.......... .............fake news.........
It sounds like he is related to plátano.
Sounds like soviet union
What? No different than the MAGA rallies.
Shell is evil. boycottshell
Humiliating. Degrading. Disgusting. Unamerican. Why is this even legal? Workers are being forced to choose between putting food on the table and demonstrating fake allegiance to a would-be dictator. EmptySeatMAGATour EmptySeatsMagaTour via Yahoo
Money money money‼️
Black mail. Frankly pretty weak union representation to allow this to happen. Heck in the 1950s they would have gone on strike!
The Dear Leader demands a show of fealty
Land of the free
I quote: Workers have to go to work
That’s called having a job...
Well yeah when you have a job you are usually expected to show up......
Trump has always been great at screwing workers.
Clown News Network Clinton proooganda machine
Wow I wonder how they feel about this
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