Hypocrite

Remember these words of wisdom? Now fast forward, who has been caught issuing personal loans to himself or herself? Does the name John E Samuelsen ring a bell? Or Ms. Benita Johnson or Ms. Roxanne Rotgers - don't take our words for it. Ask Stephen A Downs he is a person who indulges in hypocrisy. He has an excellent explanation in which he will inform you the U.S. Department of Labor Form LM-2 Labor Organizational Annual Report is wrong. Rather you should not believe your own eyes but instead proceed to the optometrist for corrective lenses. He will add that is not our money which John E Samuelsen awarded himself but instead is a loan. In addition he will turn it into the TWU International vendetta against John E Samuelsen. He will equate it to something like Robin Hood taking from the riches to help the poor. In his view it makes no sense to address one and destabilize a viable TWU Local 100 thus creating more problems. Have we learned nothing about financial shenanigans.

Compare Toussaint and Friends Raises to Yours‏ by Steve Downs

Toussaint got us a 3% raise for 2006. For the same year, he gave himself a 17% increase. In 2007, when our wages went up 4%, Toussaint gave himself a 7% boost. He went from $91,920 in 2006 to $115,475 ($141,928 after expenses) in 2008. (Don’t take our word for it, go to www.tbou2009.organd click on the link to the Union’s financial report.)

Toussaint was generous to his friends, too. Ed Watt was up 22% from 2006 to 2008. Curtis Tate got an 8.2% boost from 2007 to 2008. And Brian Clarke got an 11% bump for the same year.

All of this happened despite layoffs of clerical staff and Toussaint supposedly imposing a 10% pay cut on the officers and staff in 2007 when the dues check-off was lost. And it happened despite the Local by-laws limiting raises for officers and staff to the same percentage increase negotiated for members at the TA.It's time for them to go ,vote the entire Take Back Our Union (TBOU) Slate.

Steve Downs Chair, T/O Division of TWU Local 100

Do you believe John E Samuelsen statements:

‘I do want to make two things clear: I did not borrow money from the Union and I always returned all unused advances.’

or do you believe U.S. Department of Labor Form LM-2 Labor Organizational Annual Report below?

SCHEDULE 2 - LOANS RECEIVABLE

FILE NUMBER: 003-424

List below loans to officers, employees, or members which at any time during the reporting period exceeded $250 and list all loans to business enterprises regarless of amount.  (A)	Loans  Outstanding at  Start of Period  (B)	Loans Made  During Period  (C)	Cash  (D)(1)	Other Than Cash  (D)(2)	Loans  Outstanding at  End of Period  (E)
Name: John Samuelson Purpose: Personal Loan Security: none Terms: as able	$0	$1,297	$1,159	$0	$138
Name: Benita Johnson Purpose: Personal Loan Security: none Terms: as able	$0	$669	$362	$0	$307
Name: Roxanne Rotger Purpose: Personal Loan Security: none Terms: as able	$0	$8,474	$7,865	$0	$609
Total of loans not listed above					$0
Total of all lines	$0	$10,440	$9,386	$0	$1,054
Totals will be automatically entered in...	Item 24  Column (A)	Item 61	Item 45	Item 69  with Explanation	Item 24  Column (B)

Form LM-2 (Revised 2003)