Trump's speech at a Shell plant drew thousands of workers. They were paid overtime to be there.
Marisa Iati, Morgan Krakow 8 hrs ago
Workers at a Royal Dutch Shell plant in Monaca, Pa., were forced to choose Tuesday between attending a speech by President Trump or forgoing overtime pay that their co-workers would earn.
Attendance was optional, but contract workers who chose not to stand in the crowd would not qualify for time-and-a-half pay when they arrived at work Friday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Several companies with thousands of unionized workers have contracts with Shell, one the world’s largest oil and gas companies.
Workers at the unfinished Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex had to arrive at 7 a.m., scan their ID cards and stand for hours until Trump’s speech began, the Post-Gazette reported.
“NO SCAN, NO PAY,” a supervisor for one of the contractors wrote to workers, according to the Post-Gazette.
The contractor’s memo also banned yelling, protesting or “anything viewed as resistance” at Trump’s speech, the Post-Gazette reported.
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The pic looks like it was originally shared on Twitter but I haven't found the Tweet.
I've snagged a copy in case this disappears totally but haven't gotten a new free storage site to upload to yet.
I found it quoted a lot but the articles I've found so far don't show the actual memo sent out.
That the union was okay with this really surprised me. If they think this coercing workers to go (choice to get overtime, don't go don't get paid or use one of YOUR paid days off) will gather "good will" towards them they're delusional. All that will happen is Trump using this to show how 'adored' (gag) 
he is in a campaign video.
The fact that he revealed in his speech, yet again, what a butt ignorant lying narcissistic jerk he is has barely been reported.
