Did you know Local 23 President Dean mcGrath once came to my house, with his dad (back before he became a pirate) to ask me to help him process his grievance related to not getting registered, and ended up joining a group that sued Local 23 to get the casual hiring process changed?
Did you know that Local 23 Caucus Delegate Roger Boesphlug once called me and asked if he could work for me, helping me file grievances against Local 23?
Did you know that Coast Committeeman Leal Sundet and I were friends when we worked at PMA together, and I was the only one that defended him when PMA tried to have him deregistered, after he got registered in Newport Oregon?.
A few years ago when longshoreman wanted information like JPLRC Minutes, or Arbitration transcripts, all they needed to do was ask. They were given full access to Minutes, were given copies of any they wanted, and they were given copies of the transcripts of any hearings they participated in, free of charge.
Then a longshoreman named Eric started asking for information, and he used the information in the JPLRC Minutes to challenge Local 13 elected officials.
Apparently the Officers of Local 13 do not like to be challenged, so they changed the procedures for members accessing information, including JPLRC Minutes.
Now longshoremen requesting information are required to fill out the following application, including the reason they want the information:
Now members get REDACTED JPLRC minutes, only containing information pertaining to the person making the request.
If everything is secret then no one can question the Union Officials about what they are doing.
Transparency, ILWU style.
The only thing the members of the ILWU need to know is their Officers are always right, and only anti-union suppressives would dare even question them or their decisions.
Are the leaders of the ILWUÂ scientology believers, or is it just a coincidence that they run their Union just like L. Ron Hubbard ran his cult?
“The Church of Scientology is a cult that destroys people”, so it needs to be exposed, and so does the ILWU.
