THE AUTHORIZATION CARD SCAM
PHILLY AND NEW JERSEY MEMBERS
PRESSURED FOR AUTHORIZATION CARDS TO EXTORT CONTRACTORS TO STAY WITH THE UBC
OTHER COUNCILS NATIONWIDE PUSHED BY INTERNATIONAL FOR 9A CONTRACTS
WHEN MCCARRON LEFT THE AFL-CIO TO AVOID ARTICLE 19, WHICH PREVENTED THE UBC FROM RAIDING OTHER TRADES, HIS FIRST RAID WAS AGAINST THE IUPAT IN NY. HE FORMED A TAPERS UNION LOCAL 52 AND MOVED FOR AN NLRB REPRESENTATION ELECTION .
"A week after the March 17, 2005, decision, the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America chartered a new local union, Local 52, to represent drywall finishing workers in the
State of New York. Local 52 was not affiliated with the Trades Council,
and is therefore not bound by the New York Plan"(“New York Plan for the Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes” (“New York Plan”)
THE IUPAT STUCK IT IN HIS ASS.
LOCAL UNION 1974 OF
I.U.P.A.T., AFL-CIO, v. NASTASI
& ASSOCIATES INC.,-VS- Carpenters
Local 52
HE AGAIN TRIED IT IN CALI WITH HIS PALS AND FELLOW RATS AT THE RAYMOND GROUP.
AGAIN THE NLRB STUCK IT IN DOUGYS ASS.
AFTER THE LOCAL 52 ATTACK THE IUPAT MOVED TO SWITCH ALL THEIR CONTRACTS FROM 8F TO 9A. A 9A CONTRACT HOLDS MEMBERS HOSTAGE TO THE UBC AND LIMITS THEIR.ABILITY TO GET AWAY FROM THE UBC. AN 8F ALLOWS REPRESENTATION VOTES ANYTIME. MCCARON IS NOW DOING THE SAME.THE UBC STARTED TO AGGRESSIVELY DO SO WHEN MEMBERS IN NY,NYC AND NEW JERSEY BROKE AWAY FROM THE UBC. HAD TRUMPKA NOT SOLD OUT THE RESOLUTION 70 EFFORT THEY WOULD HAVE DONE SO.
THERE ARE TWO WAYS FOR THE UBC TO BE ABLE TO DECLARE A 9A CONTRACT.BOTH CALL FOR "PROOF" THAT THE UBC HAS MAJORITY RECOGNITION FROM ITS MEMBERSHIP.ONE IS TO CALL FOR AND HOLD AN NLRB MAJORITY RECOGNITION/REPRESENTATION ELECTION. THE UBC AVOIDS THESE AT ALL COSTS BECAUSE THEY CANNOT WIN ONE.SECOND IS "VOLUNTARY RECOGNITION" FROM CONTRACTORS.THIS IS THE EMPLOYERS TELLING THE NLRB THEY HAVE PROOF IN THE FORM OF AUTHORIZATION CARDS FROM A MAJORITY OF THEIR UBC EMPLOYEES.THIS BRINGS US TO THE UBC FRAUD OPTION 3.THE UBC FLAT OUT LIES AND JUST DECLARES THEIR CONTRACTS TO BE 9A DESPITE THEM BEING 8F AND HAVING NO PROOF OR AUTHORIZATION CARDS.
A 9A IS ALSO MORE RESTRICTIVE TO CONTRACTORS AND A CONTRACTOR WOULD NOT COOPERATE WITH A 9A WITHOUT REWARD IN RETURN. CONTRACTORS HAVE HAD 8F CONTRACTS FOR YEARS AND HAVE NO NEED TO CHANGE OR RESTRICT THEMSELVES WITHOUT A PAY OFF.THUS THE UBC FULL MOBILITY PROVISIONS.IN RETURN FOR THE "FULL MOBILITY" PAYOFF SIGNATORY'S HAVE AGREED TO LIE AND TELL THE NLRB THEY HAVE MAJORITY RECOGNITION WITH NO AUTHORIZATION CARDS. YOU WILL FIND MEMBERS DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE DEMAND AND THREATS FOR AUTHORIZATION CARDS ARE FOR AND DO NOT FILE AN NLRB CASE.
THE ILLEGAL CORRUPT ACTION BY THE UBC TO COERCE MEMBERS TO SIGN AUTHORIZATION FORMS IS WELL DOCUMENTED. FURTHER IN THE RECENT RAT CAPELLI/UBC ORDERED ATTACK ON ITS OWN UBC MEMBERS IN NYC THE NLRB JUDGE RULED FULL MOBILITY ILLEGAL AND A VIOLATION OF THE NLRA.THE UBC DID NOT CONTEST THIS FACT.
PLEASE FOR US ALL.FILE THE NLRB CASE AND THEN SUE THEIR ASS UNDER THE LMRDA IN FEDERAL COURT .FORGET ABOUT EXHAUSTING INTERNAL REMEDY'S. YOU HAVE AMPLE EVIDENCE TO PROVE IT WOULD BE A WASTE OF TIME AND THE FEDERAL JUDGE WILL LET YOUR CASE GO FORWARD.
THE AUTHORIZATION CARD SCAM
RECENT USER COMMENT
I have commented here before and perhaps painted a picture in reality
that would be considered " insinuating" or extreme. I will refrain from
that but will not refrain from continuing to point out the corruption.
So Mr Silence Dogood here is another.
The NRCC has been taking dues
check off from Phila carpenters illegally for over a year. Without
authorization!!! In an effort to cover their asses they sent out a disingenuous mix 20/ 20 form with the instructions that if it wasnt
filled out you would not have access to work. ( typical intimidation) The last part of that application was an area that needed your signature
which turned over your " cba" rights and dues withdraw from your check.
They are scrambling because they are open to a huge lawsuit of direct
payroll theft. Many men read this and refused to sign. We are on to them..
Part 2. The claim that without registration there is no work ....
All of the sudden puts the council in a bad spot as it can no longer
claim that it is not a hiring hall ( agency) which has huge implications
for tax purposes and they are calling it a " referral service" but
either way its BS. Laufenberg saw or was witness to this NRCC third
party collection agency and took umbrage.
The bottom line is that there
is a huge problem here. The shifting of over 1.6 BILLION dollars out of
the Pennsylvania economy and across state lines had to set a warning
buzzer off somewhere. The same way a pac contribution of over $735,000
dollars made its way to George Norcross the 3rd from Edison NJ to John Dougherty ( biz mgr of ELECTRICIANS LU 98) to the PHILADELPHIA mayorial
candidate jim kenney. Nothing to see here good citizen.
by
Publius
The
New York City carpenters union has been in trouble with the law for
many decades. Organized-crime has been endemic with the union for a long
time and union chief after union chief has gone to jail over the ties
and other corruption. Even shop stewards have gotten into the corruption
game with four recently convicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy or
bribetaking. It’s so bad that even the rank-and-file member
doesn’t trust the union to legally carry out union business. That
distrust was seen again recently with a dispute arising between union
members and union leadership over a plan to
withhold quarterly benefit checks from members that refuse to sign away greater power to union officials who want to fine members that refuse to fall into line.
The
union has a convoluted scheme of taking workers’ vacation pay and
placing it in a welfare fund to provide life insurance, hospitalization,
medial care, pension and vacation benefits to members. Instead of
receiving vacation pay upon returning from a vacation, members are
disbursed a quarterly vacation fund check each year. It happened that
union chiefs wanted members to sign authorization cards to allow the
union to fine any members found not paying into the welfare fund by
working jobs off the books.
Many union members, however, are
refusing to sign the cards giving the union power to take unspecified
and vague “fines” out of their pay.
“That
card was a threat,” said a carpenter who agreed to be interviewed this
month only on condition of anonymity because he said he feared
retribution. “It was like signing a blank check to let them take out
whatever they want, whenever they want.”
Since many
union members were either reluctantly signing or refusing to sign the
cards, the union leaders upped the ante by halting benefit payments to
any member that wouldn’t sign the card.
The
dispute escalated in March, when the union’s welfare fund trustees
voted to stop sending vacation-pay disbursements to anyone who had not
signed the authorization card, infuriating rank-and-file members.
The
legal basis for withholding vacation-fund payments is unclear. The
fund’s trustees, comprising five union officials and five employer
representatives, voted to stop distributing vacation checks without
seeking the consent of the fund’s lawyers, said Stuart GraBois, the
welfare fund’s executive director.
Yet, these same
leaders that have repeatedly been thrown in jail for cheating the union,
stealing union funds, working with the Mob, and any manner of other
corrupt practices are claiming the moral standing to fine members for
working jobs off the books? It’s these thug union bigwigs that members
fear giving the power to begin “fining” members without defined
restrictions on what those fines are for. Many members rightly fear that
the power once given to the union chiefs will later be misused for any
and every reason that those union leaders can imagine.
But, this
incident really does show what a union is made of. It proves pretty
starkly that union “leaders” don’t care a whit about what the workers
want. Even worse, if shows that the workers themselves are afraid of the
union itself. These workers are afraid of “retribution” from the
leader’s thug armies and from the union’s scorched earth practices.
What
sort of “voluntary” organization is it where the members are afraid of
the very organization that claims to be speaking for them?
Unfortunately, this is the ultimately logical end of any powerful union
effort. Eventually, given enough power, all unions end up treating
friend and foe alike in an effort to increase its own power.
WE HAVE ALL FACED THE AUTHORIZATION CARD SCAM
2016 NORTHEAST COUNCIL
IN DESPERATION FOR AUTHORIZATION CARDS THE JERK OFFS AT THE NORTHEAST COUNCIL HAVE NOW CREATED A BYLAW SAYING THAT ANY LOCAL THAT DOES NOT GET 90% AUTHORIZATION CARDS SIGNED WILL FACE FINES
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NYC COUNCIL
http://local157.blogspot.com/2012/04/council-authorization-cards.html
Contract Update: Should I Sign Council Authorization Cards?
In a letter (below) to the membership dated April 19, EST Bilello would like members to sign an authorization card that will authorize the District Council to represent members, for the purpose to "strengthen the negotiating position of the officers and Executive Committee that are currently engaged in negotiations with contractors associations" for wages, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment.Since I have received numerous questions from the membership about signing these cards, I sent the following questions to the District Council for an answer.
1. The contract that was voted on by the membership was it an 8(f) or a 9(a) contract?
2. If 9(a), why was the contract presented to the membership without the membership signing authorization cards?
3. A 9(a) contract appears to be more restrictive on the contractor, was full mobility negotiated in exchange to sign a 9(a) contract?
4. The UBC has negotiated a 90-day wage freeze, a $2.13 wage give back and full mobility, all in opposition of the will of the membership. Given this track record members may be reluctant to sign an authorization cards. What assurances can you give the membership that the Council will bargain in good faith, in the best interest of the membership?
Union Members Don’t Even Trust Union