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Here is the Settlement Agreement between Local 23 and the NLRB regarding access to and copies of JPLRC Minutes.

The Union must provide UNREDACTED copies of JPLRC Minutes.

The Union can no longer hide their practice of favoritism, and lying to members about what the JPLRC is doing.

The official NLRB double-eagle color poster will be in the Hall soon.

Ask Faker for UNREDACTED JPLRC Minutes, he was the one ordering the redacting.

The rest of Eunice’s Case is in DC at the NLRB Office of Appeals and is actively being worked on.

Chug, chug, chug…….

For those who have never been inside a Robot crane, this is what the driver sees.

Robot crane driver’s operate up to 5 or more cranes.

As soon as the load lands, the screen changes to another crane in the que.

Yesterday at 4:20 PM, Local 13 called for an emergency Executive Board meeting to discuss the Maersk robot operation.

Local 13 has known for over 1 year, that Maersk was switching over to a robot dock but did not feel the need to share that information.

Ask Victor Hudak, x-Secretary/Treasurer he has been telling his buddies all about it.

Local 13 has also refused to share the robot operation manning reduction agreements with their membership.

Come on Mark.

Step up and share with your members.

Also, just so you know LBCT has been using 9.43 Steadymen for the last year.

LBCT’s steady crane drivers are shifted to hammerhead or transtainer or rail, just like Local 10’s 9.43 Steadymen.

Local 23 and PMA refused to settle, and on January 17, 2019, NLRB Region 19 issued the following Complaint and Notice of Hearing.

PMA and Local 23 refused offers of a non-Board settlement and the proposed settlement sent to PMA and Local 23 on December 13, 2018.

Does PMA really think they can convince a Judge that it is ok to refuse to accept the Doctor’s excuse, that was provided at the meeting that Toby was cited to appear at, to explain his low hours?

Is PMA really clueless enough to agree with Jarod Faker’s moronic claim that Toby’s excuse was not valid because it was not date stamped by the Local 23 secretary?

It sure looks like it.

PMA has gone downhill big time, since I worked there.

It’s not like the Union didn’t try to go after guys they didn’t like back then, but we did not allow behavior like this back in the day.

It makes me laugh to think what George Ginnis would have to say about Faker besides; “Fakers are useless as tits on bacon.”

Let the fun begin……

Jarod Faker and his PMA buddies decided to deregister Local 23 B-man Toby Jackson in November 2017.

According to the following draft Settlement Agreement sent to Local 23 and PMA on December 13, 2018, Jarod Faker and Local 23 violated Toby’s rights and PMA colluded with the Union in violating Toby’s rights.

Near the end of 2017, Jarod Faker and his buddies, Deano McGrath and Dave Basher, decided to “get rid” of some of the B-men they did not like because they were going to be advancing in November 2017.

Jarod and his buddies decided that they were not going to allow Chiropractic appointments to accepted as medical excuses for low hours.

Apparently the brain trust at PMA, I hear they have law degrees now, decided to go along with Faker’s plan and in October 2017 the JPLRC told Toby that the Chiropractic excuses, they had been accepting for years, were no longer acceptable and issued him a Letter of 1st Warning for low hours.

The next month, Toby was cited again by Faker and crew with the standard PMA issued JPLRC cite letter, which told him they had a problem with his excuse, but failed to tell him what their specific problem was.

When Toby appeared, he was told that he had failed to provide any excuse for his low hours.

Toby told the Committee that he had turned in his excuse as usual and was told by Faker that they did not have any paperwork from him.

Toby pulled out a copy of the paperwork he submitted and provided it to the Committee, who told him his paperwork was not acceptable because it was not date-stamped by the Local 23 secretary.

Toby was found guilty of his 2nd low hours violation, and he was deregistered 1 week before he would have been made an A-man.

PMA went along with Faker’s refusal to accept Toby’s medical excuse, because it was not date-stamped by the Local 23 secretary.

Toby handed it to them, at the meeting he was cited to appear at to explain his low hours, and they refused to accept it because it was not date-stamped.

Faker’s idea, and PMA went along. WOW.

Toby went to the NLRB and filed a charge against both Local 23 and PMA.

In December 2018 the NLRB General Counsel in Washington DC decided that PMA was guilty of colluding with Local 23 to deny Toby’s rights and Region 19 sent both PMA and Local 23 the following Settlement Agreement.

If they refuse to settle, the Region will issue a Complaint and Notice of Hearing and we will go to trial.

In case you are wondering what the make whole amount is going to be, here are excerpts from the PMA Annual Report for 2016 and 2017.

Jarod and crew have cost Toby 1 year as an A-man, plus his benefits, and the amount keeps growing and includes interest.

Jarod and crew don’t care. It’s not their money.

When the government gets back to work this will continue…….

Check out the new flier passed out at the Local 13 membership meeting last night.

Steady hammerhead drivers and their Employers have been violating their agreement to send transtainer jobs to the Hall, since 2003, and were covered-up by current International Officers.

Everyone of the Officers listed on the JPLRC Minutes on page 2, except D. Serrato and D. Brunac, were President, Vice-President, or Secretary/Treasurer, of Local 13 after 2003, and refused to enforce the agreement NOT to assign steady hammerhead drivers to transtainers.

The list also includes current International Officers; Vice-President Bobby Olvera Jr, and Coast Committeeman Frank Ponce de Leon Jr.

NOT one of them enforced the agreement, and they all knew what was happening, in fact past President Jo Jo Cortez was doing it himself last week.

This will continue as long as the steady crane drivers employment history is hidden from the Hall men.

Time to put the steady men’s work history in the Records Clerk’s Office, just like the Hall men’s work history is now?

Check out the Fourth Amended Complaint filed in Eric’s lawsuit.

The following file was obtained through the PACER system.

The actual Fourth Amended Complaint starts on page 6 of the following PDF file.

My favorite part is first sentence of item 35, on page 13.

Here is the complete document: 

Enjoy the read, the document speaks for itself.

Call the ILWU and ask them how they plan to fix this.

When did the Union Executive Board meetings become “covered work” and part of the PCLCD grievance procedure?

Since Union Arbitrator Tommy Clark issued this moronic Section 13.2 Decision;

Or for those who prefer PDF; NCGM-0004-2018.

According to the July 1, 2014, Letter of Understanding Regarding Proper Application of Section 13, grievances are only considered valid if they involve “employment covered by the PC&LCA.”

Tommy Clark either can’t read, or does’t care about, what was agreed to in the July 1, 2014, LOU.

What is going on with the ILWU and PMA?

Business Agent Mike Kennedy gets assaulted by a member right outside the dispatch hall related to an EC, but the PMA and Local 23 say it is not covered by the PCLCD?

Members getting time off for nonsense claims of retaliation related to what happened in an Executive Board meeting, like it is not an intra-union fractional quarrel?

Idiots being enabled by morons?

Homey don’t play that!

Deano is about to find out that lying about what happened on September 13, 2018, has far more serious consequences than failing to report the hospitalization of an employee as required by WAC 296-800-32005.

During the investigation, Deano flat out lied about what happened on September, 13, 2018, when Charles Jones assaulted Local 23 Business Agent/Labor Relations Representative Mike Kennedy right outside the dispatch hall.

Here is my appeal of the November 5, 2018, letter from L&I.

Or for those who prefer PDF; Appeal of ILWU complaint response dated November 5, 2018.

And here is the attached file; L&I appeal attachment. Which includes the following memo to PMA’s chief attorney;

Here is the letter full of lies that Deano sent to the L&I investigator.

Or for those who prefer PDF; Deano 10-15-18 response to L&I.

What, if anything, is L&I going to do about Deano lying to a safety investigator?

When I find out, I’ll let you know.

Chug, chug, chug…..

Say goodbye Ray, heard you are going to get to use the new hall. Thanks for your service.

Congratulations Willie. Not bad for a kid from Tacoma.

Big congratulations to Ed. Now the fun starts.

Bobby, ahhhh….. Nevermind, I got nothing nice to say, so I will say nothing.

When do you ratify the Tenative LA/LB steady crane guarantee agreement?

With the exception of Local 10’s past President, Ed Ferris, every one of the listed candidates voted for the 3-year extension and allowed the Contract to be opened to negotiate a pay increase for the LA/LB steady crane drivers guarantee (stay home) pay.

If there ever was a time to do a write-in to show the current leadership that your are not happy about the LA/LB steady men now getting $1,032 per week to stay home for 2 days; now is that time.

Current leadership opened the contract to give  $20 million to 400 steady crane drivers in LA, and nothing for anyone else.

Write in anyone you like, or just don’t vote at all, except for Ed Ferris.

Send the corrupt leadership a message.

Homey don’t play that.