BREAKING NEWS: US Airways Election Dates Announced!

[700UW]

In what seemingly appears to be a monthly occurrence, another representative of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) has been indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges.

Michael Townsend, 64, of Dearborn Heights, a business agent and trustee of Teamsters Local 337, was indicted last Thursday by a federal grand jury in Detroit and faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.

According to the government, the unelected Townsend took bribes from a produce company, LaGrasso Brothers Produce Inc., in exchange for his participation in a scheme that made it appear that the company’s workers were unionized, when in fact they were not.

“This defendant was a union official who was entrusted to help working people organize,” U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said in aJune 14 statement announcing the indictment. “He betrayed workers for his own profit. We are seeking to hold him and the company accountable for their conduct.”

Townsend and his co-conspirators, the indictment said, would use LaGrasso family members and managers of LaGrasso Brothers Produce to pose as employees of Sam LaGrasso Produce and enroll them as union members of Teamsters Local 337. Then, they entered into collective bargaining agreements between Local 337 and Sam LaGrasso Produce to make it look like the employees at LaGrasso Brothers Produce were unionized.

Click here to read the article from the Detroit Free Press

 

[Real tired]

No the Company still owes you the $2.00/hr. Its just that the IAMPF will not take it because you will no longer be an IAM member. It will go somewhere. Hopefully not in an underfunded Teamster Plan, but I am sure it will all have to be approved by the Company, the Union and
its Members. The individuals plan would stop growing. I hope we all have enough hours in this year to get a full years accrual.

That's what I had hoped also. On all three accounts.

But listening in on the conference call, "what's his name" seemed to imply differently.

 

[700UW]

There is nothing in the CBA that states where the $2 goes if the participation in the plan ends, unlike fleet, where according to Tim the language says it goes into the 401k match.

 

[700UW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1quRyZ9zSKQ

 

[700UW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XqcmzG99GGg

 

[700UW]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4rpjkCURpZo

 

[737823]

You are just like john john, link, copy, paste, repeat.

Josh

 

[700UW]

So I shouldnt post relevant and factual information?

And your are nothing but:

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Come back when you can add to the topic.

 

[Tim Nelson]

700, your contract is what i go by. At nw with pfaa, the contract called for the ibt to get the board seat. It did. Companies go by contracts. The mx contract says the company will pay into the iampf. Conference calls and love letters during elections are..well, just that.
If the iam was so worried then it should have negotiated a transitional 401 like it did for fleet. Now it will have to sogn a quick loa or keep those members in the plan.

 

[Tim Nelson]

700, why will participation in the plan cease? Thats the question?

 

[700UW]

700, your contract is what i go by. At nw with pfaa, the contract called for the ibt to get the board seat. It did. Companies go by contracts. The mx contract says the company will pay into the iampf. Conference calls and love letters during elections are..well, just that.
If the iam was so worried then it should have negotiated a transitional 401 like it did for fleet. Now it will have to sogn a quick loa or keep those members in the plan.

If the IAM loses the election they will no longer be IAM members and participants in the plan.

The NW/IBT CBA also had dues check off, when the PFAA NW and Gerry Glass refused to take dues out of the Flight Attendants paychecks and turn it over to the PFAA. The DCO was in the CBA.

PFAA took on NW and lost as the language said IBT and not PFAA.

And here is a copy of the lawsuit where the PFAA lost in court.

http://mn.findacase....0134.DMN.htm/qx

 

[Tim Nelson]

I understand the language said ibt. That only confirms that the company will continue funding the iampf since your contract says so.

I understand the mx will not be iam members if they vote in the ibt but why would their participation in the iampf cease?
There are thousands of participants who are not iam members in the plan. What about all the twu members who will never be iam but will potentially join the iampf?
700, are you saying the trustees are going to slit the throat of the mx pension plan if they vote the iam out?
Ford and Harrison would love that and shove it so far up the iam arse that nobody at amr or dl would vote for them.

 

[700UW]

No the language said IBT the PFAA took over, so now if the IBT is the bargaining agent the CBA say IAM.

Because in the Alliance Agreement it spells out the plan will offer it to the TWU represented employees as it is a coordinated bargaining unit.

I all ready showed you an example with NW and the PFAA.

Are you that pig-headed you cant admit you are wrong?

I mean you know more then the plan trustees, Tom Regan, Tom Buffenbarger and Frank Shifano?

Give it a rest you dont know it all.

 

[Tim Nelson]

700,
The iampf is not the iam. Its separate from the iam. The contract clearly states the company must contribute to the plan. Membership is not a requirement, only in the fleet contract. Nobody is pig headed. Again, the iampf is separate from the iam. The only way that the mx can be removed from the plan is through an action by the iam pf trustees.

 

[737823]

So I shouldnt post relevant and factual information?

And your are nothing but:

.
Come back when you can add to the topic.

Thanks for a good laugh. Those videos are opinions, meaning feelings and one mans experience with the IAM.

Josh