The large room had enough chairs to seat about 50 people, but nearly all of them were empty.
By-laws of the Transport Workers Union of Greater New York Local 100, AFL-CIO, section XIII meetings, subsection (a) The Executive Board shall meet at least once in each calendar month except when the members of the Executive Board disperse with meetings during the months of July and August........ Subsection (d) A quorum of ten must be present at the meeting in order to constitute business of the Section or Division.
Well the executive board has an excuse to ‘disperse’ while the membership is paying the price with lay offs. We have spoken about absenteeism in the Local 100. However, the lack of participation, ill attended meetings or even holding an emergency executive board meeting is a new low point under Samuelsen and TBOU.
It is absurd that there are no defined numbers for the executive board that are required to be present to transact business legally, except for the section and division. The rank and file are faced with tremendous challenges, whether it is with lay offs, petty abusive supervisors, Samuelsen extending his fat sticky fingers into the memberships thin paychecks. The executive board members took vacation, how they dare, and what nerve.
This grim showing is not surprising because Samuelsen does not have the ability to round up his TBOU chums and that is the trouble. The membership is left to fend for themselves as a result. It is a known fact ‘for most of them, being on the union payroll had meant a large pay increase and the obvious, benefit of not having to work a dirty job under petty and abusive supervisors.’
We demand in the future that if any member of the Local 100 is being laid off that all members of the executive board must show up for the monthly meetings. In addition they must show up at the lay off site, with a pledge to the laid off brethren ‘we will work hard to get your job back’.
No excuses should be accepted or honored from any executive board member, and those who were absent should be publicly chastised.
It is a known fact ‘for most of them, being on the union payroll had meant a large pay increase and the obvious, benefit of not having to work a dirty job under petty and abusive supervisors.’
ReplyDeleteHA HA HA LMFAO!!!!!!You must be on another planet.
BTW why don't YOU run for E-Board and see how "easy" it is?
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to throw stones but not so easy to do the job....step up or keep it to yourself.