When Rich Austin, Local 19 President, was confronted by one of his members regarding his flying First Class when on Union Business, he admitted that he did and proudly added that a Trustee had approved it.
Yup, Local 19 Trustee and Labor Relations Committee Representative, Justin Hurch approved Rich’s First Class travel, because he is a good lackey and wannabe Ball Washer.
Does anyone really think that the Local 19 membership wants to pay for Rich to fly First Class?
Come on Rich, stop fucking your members around and do your job.
When a member asked for the Minutes from Local 23’s April 2016 JPLRC Meeting, this is what he got.
What are Dean McGrath and Rich Austin hiding?
Could it be that they are screwing their own members over, and lying to the Employers about what they are doing?
Yes, yes it could.
“Employees have a Section 7 right to discuss discipline or disciplinary investigations involving their fellow employees,” according to Banner Health, 358 NLRB No. 93 and other NLRB Decisions including the following Advice Memo.
It started with the bullshit blanket confidentiality claim in the Special Grievance Handbook related to Section 13.2 Discrimination “privacy rights,” which do not exist in the work place unless it is to protect the employers “legitimate and substantial business justification,” and now bullyboy Union Officials like Dean McGrath and Rich Austin have taken it to a new level.
The NLRB is now investigating Amended Charges against both Local 23 and Local 19 related to their thug practices.
Not everyone is afraid of bullies like Dean and his little helper, Rich Austin.
Both of them have some “esplaining” to do the NLRB investigator, then we will see what kind of Minutes they give to members.
Based on what I have heard, this is what happened.
Bobby O Jr. and his boys decided that they wanted to prevent part time BA, “The Greek,” from running for the BA position, so they decided to jam him up using the Trial Committee and some in-lieu-of payments.
They got Mo “The Rat” Medina to roll on “The Greek,” but before they could go after Angelo they had to deal with the other BA, “Khuzy” and get him to stop putting his wife in for the same kind of in-lieu-of payments.
The first time they told Khuzy to stop doing what he was doing, he stopped, but then he started again.
The second time, Bobby and Frank confronted Khuzy with an envelope full of documents related to the in-lieu-of payments he had been giving to his wife. They told him if he did not stop they were going to file Trial Committee charges against him.
It worked, and Khuzy resigned, and so did “Fat” Nacho the Dispatcher.
You see, the in-lieu-of scam only works if you have a Dispatcher in the loop.
Here is how the scam works.
The BA “finds” some jobs that he “talks” the employer into hiring. He then calls the Dispatcher who creates some Form 3s.
The “late order” Form 3s are created by the Dispatcher who fills them any way he wants to, then the Form 3s just vanish, poof.
In Khuzy’s case it seems that the “found” jobs came with instructions to make sure his wife got one of the Form 3s.
After Khuzy stopped the first time, Bobby and his boys made their move on “The Greek,” using Mo “The Rat” Medina to roll on Angelo, and filed a Trial Committee charge of conduct unbecoming against him.
Angelo filed a counter conduct unbecoming charge against Bobby for doing the same thing. Bobby used his influence to get his “body guards” put on the payroll, at PASHA, when he went to the Mayor’s victory luncheon at City Hall. Khuzy changed his story and covered for Bobby, so he got a pass, until he started again. That’s when the second meeting took place and Khuzy resigned.
Because Bobby’s boys (Fat Boy John “Jabba the Hut” Seixas, and Dumb Shit Larry Toledo) controlled the Trial Committee, the charge against Bobby was found to have no merit, and not processed, while Dumb and Dumber found “The Greek” guilty as charged and disqualified him from running for Union Office for 13 years.
Thirteen (13) years is the maximum time a Union member convicted of a felony, in a Court of Law, can be bared from running for elected positions. In a Court of Law, as opposed to the Kangaroo Court run by Bobby and his boys.
We agree with Harry Bridges; when the rank-and-file gets all the information they will do the right thing.
This is not all the information, but it is more than most members have.
Work dodger Victor Hudak took the day off yesterday and today, to campaign at the Dispatch Hall, and decided to put his blue fliers in front of Eddie’s white fliers, and Eric’s orange fliers. Nice move from the man in charge of the elections.
Poor little Victor the work dodger is crying on Facebook about everyone picking on him. What a fucking pussy!
Victor Hudak is the one who paid his father $23,000 to put new windows in the Memorial Hall, while claiming he does not do favors for his friends.
Aside from dodging work and “watching” the secretaries, which Victor says is his job, he has done nothing for the membership unless you are a Dispatcher, or other elected Local 13 Officer.
Victor let Julie Brady check out of her elected Chief Dispatcher job and call her own replacement so she could put herself on the payroll as the DHA, a job paid for 100% by PMA and supposedly picked by PMA. That’s a favor Victor!
Victor also let “Fat” Nacho resign from his Dispatcher job at the same time as Business Agent Andy Kustich resigned to cover up the scam they were running with the BA “finding” “late orders” then turning them over to “Fat” Nacho to fill any way he wanted, as long as one of them went to “Khuzy’s” wife; then the Form 3’s that got used just disappeared. That’s another favor Victor!
Poor little Victor, is a dirty ball washer who has to go.
It is happening up and down the West Coast. Clerks jobs are being eliminated and Walking Bosses are doing their work.
The robots are not going to eliminate clerks jobs, they already did that themselves.
Greed and laziness is the cause of this problem, not mechanization.
Clerks allowed the hatch clerks jobs to be filled by casuals for so long that some employers offered to buy them out by paying the other clerks 25% to cover the work, and the Clerks went for it.
In Seattle and LA, SSA has started to require the Walking Bosses to do checking work, and they are agreeing to do it.
What kind of Union men allow the employer to eliminate jobs, then allow management to do the work?
Yes, Walking Bosses are management, and both the Clerks and Longshoremen are allowing them to do clerks work.
Not only are the Walking Bosses allowing their members to do clerks work, they are processing complaints against casual Walking Bosses for clerking errors, and finding them guilty even when they had nothing to do with the missing container.
The NLRB does not recognize the Walking Bosses as a Union, but the PMA and the ILWU do, and they are both using the Bosses to screw with longshoremen working off the Supplemental Bosses Board, now that hours worked count toward getting registered as a Boss.
Greed and laziness killed the Hatch Clerks jobs and the Clerks and Longshoremen sat and did nothing.
This is an example of a self inflicted injury to one, which is an injury to all.
Way to go Local 98 and Local 94, keep up the good work and maybe PMA will give you another big bonus in the contract extension talks.
Big, and I mean really big, John “Jabba the Hut” Seixus decided he had the right to tear down the Walking Boss Shape-up fliers, because he thinks they are offensive.
Jabba made a big scene tearing down the fliers, and wadding them up and throwing them at the dispatchers.
When Eric put his body between Jabba and the fliers, Jabba tried to push him aside using his girth.
Jabba did not know what to do when he could not move Eric aside using his huge belly, so he decided to step back and claim he was assaulted.
Who is going to tell Jabba that he does not have the right to tear down anything, even if he thinks it is offensive.
He can chose not to look at the flier, if he does not like it, but he does not get to tear it down.
Looks like Local 94 President Danny Miranda is all foreklempt about his on-the-job elevation shape-up being exposed in the following flier distributed last Thursday at the Local 13 Dispatch Hall.
Immediately after the flier found it’s way to the Caucus in San Francisco, Danny decided he needed to have a meeting to discuss something that was put into a Letter of Understanding from the 2014 Longshore Contract Negotiations.
New NLRB Charges filed against Local 23, Tacoma, and Local 19, Seattle, for working together to bully members and steal money.
Local 23 is continuing to fine members from other Ports, “all monies earned,” for line-up violations, and in some cases they refer the Complaint to Local 19 for further processing.
In one case Local 19 decided that because the member was “guilty” of a line-up violation on the 2nd shift in Tacoma, they would fine him $1000 for the 1st shift job he took in Seattle, which had nothing what-so-ever to do with his Tacoma dispatch “problem.”
Dean and his day Business Agent also decided to threaten and intimidate one of the members who requested the JPLRC Minutes where the alleged “violations” are documented.
It seems that Dean and his LRC Representatives are NOT telling the PMA members at the JPLRC meetings that they are fining some members “all monies earned.” The only penalty the JPLRC discusses and documents, is the $50 fine.
Are you going to write about this in your new Local 23 online newspaper, Deano?
Update.
This morning June 28th, one of the Seattle guys went to Local 23 to request minutes.
Before the Secretary could hand him the request form, a Local 23 member stepped in front of her and told him they did not have any JPLRC Minutes.
He did exactly what he should have done. Walked away.
Do you think this is going to help your case Deano?
Local 23 President, Dean McGrath, opened last Thursday’s emergency roll-meeting by telling his membership that he knows what he says will end up on the internet, on my website, but he does not care because the Local has never lost a case to me.
The “reason” Dean called the roll-call (mandatory) meeting was to tell his membership that they have to cover the skilled work, because PMA is not happy about the fact that Local 23 has not been filling jobs.
As a direct result of members who have been trained to operate equipment choosing to work non-skilled jobs, skilled work is not getting covered.
This is an example of longshore greed in action.
To solve the problem the Union is proposing to stop sign-ups for training, and allow PMA to just select members by seniority and notify them by letter that they are being scheduled for training. (This plan makes me wonder, who is it that they want to train that did not, or forgot to, sign up for the current training programs?) (Nothing is as it seems with these guys!)
PMA is not happy that Local 23 is not filling jobs, but they are afraid to file Section 9.41 complaints against Local 23 members even though they file them by the 100’s in Los Angeles, against Local 13 members.
Dean is begging his members to cover their skill work, and complaining that they can’t figure out a way to hire skilled casuals to cover the jobs.
Yeah that’s right, these guys can’t figure out how to hire people for jobs that pay $38.18/hour. Amazing.
But, why start the meeting by trash talking about me?
Could it have something to do with the NLRB charge I just filed?
Sounds like Dean has been listening to his buddies Scott Mason and Conrad Spell, and is parroting their same old hateful negative personal attacks against me. They think it will stop people from talking to me.
Dean told the membership that I am anti-ILWU and that they have won every case I have ever brought against Local 23.
That is Pirate/Longshore talk for, don’t talk to the bad man who used to work for PMA.
Dean and I go way back. In the 1990’s Dean came to my house, with his dad, to discuss grieving the registration process. I am pretty sure Dean was one of the 58 casuals who sued the Union, using the transcripts I helped them create, and changed the way casuals were dispatched and registered, and the way discrimination grievances were processed in Tacoma.
Does Dean think that the nice NLRB postings, like the one below, that the Local was required to post, are because they won?
Does Dean think that the money the Union had to give back to the B-men, according to the NLRB posting below, is because they won?
Does Dean really think that what he said will stop people from calling me?
Does Dean know that I am from Lakewood, that I went to Clover Park, that I worked at the Weyerhaeuser Log Dock before I worked for PMA, and that I registered 100’s of his members when I worked for PMA?
Come on Dean, lots of Local 23 members talk to me.
Dean and Local 23 are so afraid of “the outside” finding out what they are doing to their rank-and-file, that they forcibly took one members cell phone who was recording the meeting.
Dean asked the member what he was doing. The member explained that he had suffered a head injury and it is hard for him to remember details, so he records things so he can view them later.
Dean and his crew decided that was not a good enough explanation, so in front everyone Dean deleted the video from his phone.
Did Dean think that he was the only member recording what was happening?
Dean is actually a good guy, and I like Dean.
Dean earned my respect when I was told how he was the only Caucus Delegate that stood up to Big Bob, when Big Bob was objecting to the new Publicity Committee that the Caucus agreed to create.
Big Bob was objecting in his normal Big Bob way, telling the Caucus that the International had a publicist, when Dean spoke up and asked if he had heard correctly or not, because he thought he heard the Caucus agree to create a new Publicity Committee.
When Big Bob heard what Dean said, he turned beet red and stormed off.
Dean earned my respect and showed he has potential, and right after Dean spoke up Locals started nominating members to the new Publicity Committee.
All Dean needs to do is get rid of dead beats like Scott Mason and Conrad Spell who are giving him bad advice, and start doing what he thinks is right. Dean has great instincts, he should trust them.
But what would I know, I have never won a case? Eh?
Now that I think of it, I believe I will amend my current NLRB charge to include sending members to 28 day in-patient treatment, arbitrarily and without following proper procedures.
