Hierarchy

Grand vizier Steve Downs is a jack of all trades - teaching stewards, chairing trials, traveling overseas to observe the Portugal strike (wonderful use of your hard-earned dues at work - the excuse is well we were invited to show solidarity with the strike) ex cetera. However what is incredible is he is just a chair of division, while other division chairs are just observing this inequality maybe we have a brain drain in TWU Local 100. Is this a responsible organization? One would like to believe so. Lets look at numerous vice presidents that we have - why were they are excluded from those extra curricular activities? The question is - can they teach or conduct a trial, or travel overseas? There is no question that they are capable. So why they are overlooked?

John Samuelsen with his TBOU chums are untrustworthy and are simply advocating the position of the political faction to which they belong. What about other division chairs do they enjoy equal benefits such as grand vizier Steve Downs? Or is it just for TBOU buddies - it is obvious all other division chairs do not get equal treatment as grand vizier Steve Downs. Maybe it would be great if we can change the name of the TWU Local 100 to Steve Downs Inc.

Now we have to reconsider the Israel Rivera trial. Is it permissible under the TWU Constitution for a division chair to run a trial bypassing the chain of command? Maybe those vice presidents were perceived dunces by John Samuelsen, thus he has to rely on the prodigy grand vizier Steve Downs as King Henry VIII of England relied on Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (who drafted the famous preamble of the Ecclesiastical Appeals Acts 1532). TWU Constitution article xx - Trial of Members Section 1. ...the local executive board shall elect a trial committee of three... 

All of the above rises to the level of the appearance of impropriety thus warranting a reconsideration of probably reopening the Israel Rivera trial. Maybe that responsibility should come from the TWU International the parent organization of the Local 100. Grand vizier Steve Downs gets benefits, perks, interests due to his friendship with John Samuelsen. It will be hard to believe that he had independence that is required of the trier of fact. Grand vizier Steve Downs conduct off the bench reveals a lot which is undesirable.