How do you get $72.16 worth of benefits for 16 cents? Convert 2 hours of benefits to tonnage, then back to dollars, using the magic PMA formula for Make Whole Crane Pay Assessments.

According to the Big Bobby, Little Bobby, and their tool, Big Jimmy McKenna, PMA has converted the 2 hours plus skill differential paid to Hall Crane Drivers, under the Local 13 Crane Training Agreement, into 16 cents of tonnage.

Not everyone buys their smoke and mirrors, or their deception and bluff, regarding the “Make Whole” payments being paid to the Hall Crane Drivers.

Today, one of the Hall Crane Drivers filed a Section 13.3 discrimination complaint against the bullshit equalization formula the Steady Men have put into the contract, and their feeble attempt to buy off the Hall Crane Drivers with Little Bobby’s con job “Make Whole” payments.

Check out the complaint. Eric – Equalization argument-2

Also check out the PMA 2015-16Assessment_Rates and the LA Crane Operator Make Whole Pay Assessment Agreement.

According to the forecast in the assessment Agreement, PMA decided to change the tonnage rate to raise $500,000.

So far this year they have paid about 40 individuals approximately $200, for a total of $8,000.

What happens to the other $492,000 assessed to fund the “Make Whole” payments?

Why not give it to the Steady Men? Right Joey R?

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Local 23 is trashing the ILWU seniority system for a “points system.”

The handicappers in Local 23 have figured out a way to get around the seniority language in the new man for man transfer procedure contained in the MOU.

Local 23 Crane Board Point System

Local 23 Crane Board Point System

In order to keep a more senior crane driver from LA, who is transferring in to Local 23, from getting ahead of any of the good-old-boys from Local 23, they passed a new points system to negate the “travelers” seniority.

ILWU:PMA MOU Transfer rules

ILWU:PMA MOU Transfer rules

Section 1.8 puts the more senior LA crane driver ahead of someone connected in Local 23, and they are willing to pass a rule just to screw their “brother” from LA.

Solidarity Tacoma style.

Right Dean, Conrad, and Scotty?

The last time Conrad and Scotty passed a rule to mess with a member form LA, the Local ended up with a Unfair Labor Practice charge, which was posted on their website from June through September of this year.

Only in-port crane hours count, because the cranes in LA/LB are completely different? Right.

Which of you geniuses decided only in-port hours count?

What’s going to happen this time?

Can you spell Section 13.3, or NLRB?

 

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Local 13’s new Crane Training Agreement aka the Make Whole Agreement, exposed as a fraud and a con.

This morning 2 Hall Crane Drivers took their first step toward taking back the Dispatch Hall.

Little Bobby’s claim to fame, the “Make Whole” Crane Agreement, has been challenged as being a legitimate Agreement and exposed for the “hip pocket” con that it is.

Read the argument presented by the 2 Hall Crane Drivers who stood up for their rights today.

Crane Training Supplement 13.3 argument

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Hall Crane Drivers vs Steady Crane Drivers – Operation Take Back the Hall starts October 8th.

If you have never been to one of Eric’s Section 13.3 hearings, you are missing some fine labor relating.

Come and see for yourself.

Tomorrow morning at 9 AM, at PMA, Eric will be representing 2 Hall Crane Drivers who have claimed Section 13.3 Discrimination violations related to the new “Local 13 Crane Training Agreement” aka the “Make Whole” Agreement.

Two of the “qualified” hall crane drivers are refusing to stand by and do nothing while the steady men, and their steady Union Officers, kick 63 hall men off the Supplemental Crane Board, just so the steady men can can be first up after the Crane Board.

The so called “Local 13 Crane Training Agreement” is another Bobby O Jr. con job, as phony as a 3 dollar bill, and so is Big Bob’s alleged agreement to convert the man-hour assessments to tonnage assessments which he claims will pay the benefits for the crane driver “make whole” payments.

Come and watch as Big Bobby and Little Bobby’s cons are exposed.

Come and check out the power of a Section 13.3 grievance.

An injury to one IS an injury to all.

 

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What would it be like without the ILWU?

Check out this JOC article. Strike hits Santos port | JOC.com

This is what happens without the ILWU.

Workers fired and laid off, willy nilly.

Because of the genius of Harry Bridges creating 1 bargaining unit for the entire West Coast, these kinds of firings and layoffs will never happen in our small Ports, like Port Gamble, or Bellingham, or even Everett.

Thank you Harry.

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NLRB rules against Leal and Local 8. ILWU bullying tactics ruled illegal.

Check out this nice little article in the JOC regarding the September 24, 2015, NLRB Decision regarding the Port of Portland refer plug/unplug jobs that Leal and Local 8 tried to take from the IBEW.

NLRB deals another blow to the ILWU in Portland | JOC.com

If you want to read about the threats that Leal and Jeff Smith made to the companies involved read the Board Decision.

Board Decision 19-CC-082533

Little by little, the ILWU is getting the message that bullying will no longer work.

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