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PMA called the NLRB to demand removal of 2 of my Belly Bump posts.

04/03/18 / Jim Tessier / Default

Yesterday, April 2, 2018, PMA called my friendly NLRB Board Agent to claim that I had violated the non-disparagement agreement reached on March 19, 2018, and demanded that I remove 2 blogs.

On Saturday, March 31, 2018, I received the NLRB poster that Local 19 will have to put up for 60 days. The poster referred to in my March 20, 2018, blog and one of the blogs that PMA demanded that I remove.

I was planning to put the beautiful double eagle poster from the NLRB on my blog, and was thinking of what I wanted to say, when I got the phone call from my friendly Board Agent telling me that PMA had problems with 2 of my blogs.

Before PMA’s complaint, I had decided not to blog the poster PMA agreed to as part of the settlement of the charge filed against them for their part in the Belly Bump incident, but PMA’s phone call changed that.

PMA demanded I remove my March 16, 2018 blog, something I wrote prior to the settlement reached on March 19th.

PMA also demanded I remove my March 20, 2018, blog about the win-win settlement, claiming it violated the non-disparagement agreement.

PMA said if I refused to remove the posts, that they would not put up the poster they agreed to in the settlement agreement.

My response was, tell PMA I refuse to remove either of the blogs; not the one before the settlement nor the one the day after the settlement.

I said, if PMA does not want to put up the poster they agreed to put in the lobby at their office in Seattle, that is ok with me.

It is still a win-win and I won’t disparage it, but I will post the entire settlement agreement on my blog for you to read for yourself.

Documents speak for themselves.

Here is Local 19’s response to the belly bump:

Or for those who prefer PDF; NLRB 19-CB-204318 posting.

Here is the PMA settlement agreement and the poster they agreed to put in their lobby:

Or for those who prefer PDF; 19-CA-204276 settlement agreement.

Or for those who prefer PDF; NLRB 19-CA-204276 posting.

You decide for yourself whether or not my March 20, 2018, blog, violated the settlement agreement.

Homey says: I don’t think so.

 

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NLRB “Belly bump” cases settle, both sides can claim a win.

03/20/18 / Jim Tessier / Default

The Local 19 belly bump cases 19-CB-204318 and 19-CA-204276 have settled, and both sides can say they won.

PMA and Local 19 got what they wanted; their regular non-admission clause, plus a non-admission clause that says the dispatcher is not their agent.

We got a posting with 2 eagles and the NLRB logo that says;

“WE WILL NOT threaten you physically or intimidate you because you engaged in protected concerted activities.”

As soon as Compliance sends out the Posting, it will be posted here.

Thank you PMA and Local 19, for another win-win Complaint resolution.

 

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Dispatchers – agents or employees of ILWU/PMA?

03/16/18 / Jim Tessier / Default

Agents or employees?

That depends on whether they are coming after you or, you are going after them.

According to documents filed with the NLRB by both the ILWU and PMA, dispatchers are NOT agents of the JPLRC.

They sure act like agents when they call all the shots related to dispatching and when they order people around the dispatch hall.

However, if one of them belly bumps you across the hall and threatens to kick your ass, they are NOT agents of the ILWU and PMA.

Just another example of the; heads I win, tails you lose, management style of the corrupt morons currently in charge of the ILWU and PMA.

Trial is set for 9am in March 20, 2018, at the NLRB.

Come and watch the lawyers for the ILWU and PMA lie like rugs.

I’ll be there, I got subpoenas from both the ILWU and PMA.

 

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Local 23’s President Dean McGrath lies like a rug, and here is proof.

03/09/18 / Jim Tessier / Default

Here is a copy of the memo Eric sent to Dean McGrath after the phone call he had with him on March 1, 2018;

Eric faxed the memo to Local 23 along with a copy of the Pacific Rail Ramp Agreement and the posting and Settlement Agreement from Case 19-CB-1075222 et al.

Dean must have noticed that Eric sent a copy to his lawyer because he decided to respond in writing.

Dean, you really should have considered the consequences of putting your lies in writing.

Here is Deans response to Eric;

For starters, Eric is not some job hunter looking for “work opportunities at the Port of Tacoma,” he is a dues paying, voting, member in good standing of the ILWU, and has been so since 1999.

Eric was not deregistered from “the industry.” Eric was deregistered under the PCLCD.

In case no one told you Dean, “the industry,” is bigger that just the ILWU/PMA Agreement.

Also, in case no one told you, being deregistered DOES NOT have anything to do with Union membership. The words registered and/or deregistered do not appear in the Constitution of Local 13, or the International’s Constitution.

The first charge related to Local 23 refusing to dispatch Eric to the non-PMA SIM rail ramp resulting in NLRB Case 19-CB-107522 et al Settlement Agreement and the following posting, was based on the truth;

 

The NLRB decisions referred to in Dean’s memo are based on his lie, contained in the last sentence of his memo.

Dean claims Eric is not allowed to be dispatched to the non-PMA SIM rail ramp job because he is “not eligible to line up for dispatch out of the Tacoma JPLRC dispatch hall.”

The non-PMA SIM rail ramp job is NOT dispatched out of the Tacoma JPLRC dispatch hall, it is dispatched “through the office of the Union.”

The words “JPLRC dispatch hall” do not appear in the Rail Ramp Terminal Agreement because it is NOT a PMA Agreement

The proof that Deano is a liar, is the letter PMA wrote in response to a claim that Eric working at the SIM was a violation of the Arbitration Decision placing him on no-dispatch to PMA jobs.

In January 2017, Eric was placed on 1 year no-dispatch for his political cartoon about the Walking Boss shape-up going on every night in Los Angeles.

Eric came up to Tacoma, told the dispatcher he was on no-dispatch to PMA but he was a member in good standing and was dispatched to the non-PMA SIM rail ramp.

Eric worked for 2 weeks, until Dave Basher told him he was not allowed to be dispatched because of an alleged  letter from the CLRC. A letter that does not exist.

Local 13 and John Seixas claimed that Eric’s working at the SIM was a violation of the Arbitration Decision placing him on no-dispatch.

PMA responded with the following letter;

According to PMA there is no work record for Eric from January 1, 2017, forward.

PMA has no knowledge of Eric working at the SIM rail ramp because it is a non-PMA job, is not dispatched through the ILWU/PMA dispatch hall, and the payroll for work done at the SIM is not processed by PMA.

Dean is a liar.

Eric was not deregistered from the industry, and the job Eric is seeking is not dispatched through the Tacoma JPLRC dispatch hall.

Interesting how Dean is so concerned abut his family that he begged the Coast to pay for his kids to fly to San Francisco, and when he was turned down he and Dave Basher decided to steal the money from the members of Local 23, but he does not give a damn about Eric’s family when he refuses to dispatch him based on lies.

Dean is a liar and a hypocrite, pretending to be a Union leader.

Harry Bridges’ statue should be removed form Local 23, they do not deserve it.

 

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What do you call a man who makes $169,000/yr as President of his Local, and steals from his members?

03/02/18 / Jim Tessier / Default

What do you call a man who refuses to dispatch a member in good standing, based on an alleged rule, then refuses to give the member a copy of the alleged rule?

You call him Dean McGrath, President of Local 23.

Pirate Dean McGrath was recently called out by one of his members, for stealing from the membership. 

Dean and his buddy, Dave Basher, are giving Dean in-lieu-of payments that should go to the next member in line for a job, who did not get one, because Dean has been crying that his $169,000/yr salary is not enough to live off.

Dean gets $169,000/yr for doing basically nothing, but he feels entitled to more.

Dean gets paid to go on trips with his buddies at the Port of Tacoma, who love to show off their “workers” to their overseas partners, while claiming to be doing research in Ports all over the world.

Dean is the fat cat corrupt Union leader Poster Boy used by anti-Union employer groups.

Dean is the perfect example of a greedy stupid Union leader, that employers use to beat down real Union organizational efforts.

Yesterday, Dean told Eric Aldape, Local 13 member in good standing, that he was not going to allow him to be dispatched to the non-PMA rail ramp job at the SIM.

When asked why, Dean said there was a rule preventing deregistered longshoremen from being dispatched.

When asked if this was the same rule the Local agreed NOT to enforce in the settlement posting from the NLRB Case 19-CB-107522 et al Settlement Agreement, Dean said it is not that rule, it is a different rule that was adopted at the same time.

 

According to Dean, at the same time the Union was signing an NLRB settlement agreement not to refuse to dispatch Eric in retaliation for his Union activities, they were passing another rule to refuse to dispatch Eric? Right.

If you have any doubt that Eric was deregistered because of his Union activity, please read 014 022018 First Amended Complaint.

When asked how it is possible to have a rule that would prevent a member from being dispatched to the SIM, when Section 4 to the Rail Ramp Terminal Agreement specifically states; “Selection of applicants for referral to jobs shall be on a non-discriminatory basis and shall not be based on, or in any affected by Union membership, bylaws, rules, constitutional provisions or any other aspect or obligation of Union membership, policies or requirements.”  Dean just said they had a rule.

When asked for a copy of the rule, Dean said; “you are not getting a copy,” and hung up.

This is what Bob McEllrath and his corrupt followers like Dean McGrath have turned the ILWU into.

It is no longer a Union, it is a social club, run by criminals and x-cops.

This is far from over Deano.

 

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Always wondered why George Ginnis despised the Faker family, all the Fakers. I understand now thanks to Jerrod Faker.

02/28/18 / Jim Tessier / Default

Jerrod Faker has to be the stupidest member of Local 23, and now he is the Chair of the Union Labor Relations Committee.

While he was the B-man representative he applied the “what ever I feel like” rule to deregister numerous people, because he felt like it.

Jerrod arbirtarily refused to accept a medical excuse because it was not date stamped. Date stamped?

Jerrod arbitrarily refused to allow a B-men to correct a mistake made by his Doctor, who wrote the wrong date on his excuse, because “he should have known better.”

When questioned about why he was doing what he was doing, Jerrod’s response was; “he has other problems.”

Jerrod Faker has invited the NLRB to investigate his behavior, and the behavior of the PMA morons who are colluding with him.

Here are the latest NLRB Charges filed against Local 23 and PMA, related to their unlawful deregistration of B-men:

Or for those who prefer PDF; NLRB 19-CB-212192 – 2nd Amended & NLRB 19-CA-215375.

If Jerrod Faker and his PMA buddies deregistered you, or someone you know, you should file a Charge with the NLRB. Chances are good that your rights were violated as well.

DO NOT let a dumbshit like Jerrod Faker take your, or anyone else’s, job away for unlawful reasons.

Tell, and show, Jerrod Faker that an injury to one is really an injury to all.

More to come….

 

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ALDAPE v. Corrupt ILWU Officials – Eric’s first punch!

02/20/18 / Jim Tessier / 1 Comment / Default

If you are interested in the story of what the ILWU did to member Eric Aldape you came to the right place.

Or, for those who prefer PDF; 014 022018 First Amended Complaint.

This is just the first punch.

More to come…..

 

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NLRB charges have been filed against Local 23 related to deregistering B-men.

02/14/18 / Jim Tessier / Default

One of the B-men deregistered by Local 23 has filed a NLRB charge against the Union for violating his rights.

If you, or someone you know, were deregistered within the last 6 months and they want to do something about it they need to call the NLRB in Seattle at 206 220-6300, ask to speak to the duty officer, and file a charge.

We can’t help you, if you don’t want to help yourself.

Do not let a few corrupt Union officials take your job, and give it to one of their buddies.

 

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ILWU workers entitled to JPLRC Minutes according to the NLRB.

01/26/18 / Jim Tessier / Local 23 Stuff

Local 23 refuses to provide JPLRC Minutes to dispatch hall users, unless you are related to or friends with Union Officials.

Once again Local 23 denied JPLRC minutes in violation of past NLRB Settlement Agreements, and asked their secretaries to lie under oath about what happened.

Here are the final briefs submitted by Local 23 and Region 19, related to the trial they had in October 2017.

Local 23’s brief:  2018 01 25_Respondent’s PHB to ALJ_FINAL

Region 19’s brief:  1-25-18 GC’s Post Hrg Brf to ALJ (19-CB-175084 ILWU Local 23)

Know your rights.

Do not let corrupt Union Officials deny you your rights.

 

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It is now official: The ILWU owns the Arbitrators.

01/16/18 / Jim Tessier / Default

David Miller got fired for refusing to throw a picket line Arbitration.

Looks like the new Arbitrators didn’t want to get Millered for refusing to throw this picket line Arbitration.

Just so you know. A picket line cannot be valid unless the picketers have a valid labor agreement with the employer they are picketing.

This picket line was organizational and/or informational.

The superintendents at Pasha did not have a labor agreement, therefore they could not have been on strike.

This is as phony as a 3 dollar bill, and taints every other Arbitration Decision issued by the employees called Arbitrators.

Or for those who prefer PDF; SCAA-001-2018.

If you were the victim of one of these phony Arbitrations and you want to do something about it, especially if it was a Section 13 Award, send a copy to us and we will use it to fix this broken system.

Speak now, and help yourself and others, or prepare to get abused by Big Baby McEllrath and his Coast Committeemen, Frank Ponce de Leon and Cam Williams.

Send your decisions to laborrelations@comcast.net.

 

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