Dean McGrath, Local 23 President, must be worried about the new NLRB charge below, because Dean was witness tampering at last Thursdays emergency roll-call meeting.

Arrr

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?

NLRB Charge 19-CB-175084

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?

Local 23 NLRB Posting Regarding Internet posting

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?

Local 23 NLRB posting signed by Larry Schwerin

 

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.

ARRR!

 

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Time for PMA to stop kissing ass and start kicking it.

Unless or until PMA decides to step up and deal with the bullies running the ILWU, nothing is going to change.

PMA could start by stopping the Union from fining members “all monies earned” for dispatch violations, and make the Union use the grievance procedure of the Contract.

Big Bob and his heir apparent Frank Ponce de Leon are pathetic bullies that need to be dealt with, if the labor relations climate in the waterfront is going to change.

Time for PMA to stop kissing ass and start kicking it, starting with Local 23.

According to this set of Executive Board Minutes, Local 23  has decided to bully and intimidate Seattle travelers by fining them $50 plus “all monies earned” when they commit a lineup violation during dispatch.

Tacoma JPLRC EC-21-16 2

What moron at Local 23 decided to add “all monies earned” to rule 1238 of the Local 23 Work Rules? Conrad?

Local 23 Work Rule - Lineup violation penalty

Local 23 dispatchers and members sit and watch visitors from other Ports lineup wrong, do not say anything (unless they are a friend), then put their Union brother, or sister as in this case, on the spindle for a lineup violation.

What makes them think the can bully travelers like that?

They think they can do anything they want, because PMA sits there, does nothing and lets the Union fuck over their own members.

I am not sure how anyone is supposed to know all the Tacoma Rules, there are 58 pages of rules and the Local does not give them out unless they are asked for a copy, and then they make whoever is asking tell the secretary why they want them. Duh?

Here is a current copy of all the Tacoma Working Rules, which are NOT included in the Local 23 Working and Dispatching Rules that have been agreed to by the JPLRC.  Local 23 Work Rules as of 2-11-16

As a result of the E-Board Minutes, the following NLRB charge has been filed against Local 23 for stealing “all monies earned” from travelers who make lineup mistakes.

NLRB Charge 19-CB-175084

Time for the PMA to step up and stop the bullies currently running the ILWU from fucking everything up for everyone else.

What the fuck is wrong with the Employers?

Come on man………

 

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