SO IT BEGINS. THIS IS WHY AND HOW UNION CRIMINAL SYNDICATES THRIVE..NOW WATCH AS ONCE AGAIN ALL THE FEDERAL AGENCYS BECOME WHORES FOR UNION CRIMINAL SYNDCIATES UNDER BIDEN

"unions, including the Service Employees International Union and Communications Workers of America, have been urging Biden to break with precedent by forcing him out immediately"

 
"you’re firing this individual of an independent agency without cause because unions have asked you to do it"

 

 BIDEN FIRES NLRB GENERAL COUNSEL AFTER HE REFUSES TO RESIGN

• Peter Robb ousted minutes after Biden takes oath
• First general counsel forced out since 1950

President Joe Biden fired Peter Robb, the Trump-appointed general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, after Robb refused a request from the new administration to resign.

The White House notified Robb of his dismissal by letter—sent minutes after Biden was sworn in Wednesday—which specified he had until 5 p.m. to voluntarily resign or be fired, two people with knowledge of the correspondence said.

In a rebuke to the new chief executive, Robb said in a letter he wouldn’t voluntarily resign and that his removal would “permanently undermine” the work of the agency. A White House spokesperson Wednesday confirmed that Robb refused to resign and was fired.

“I respectfully decline to resign from my Senate-confirmed four-year term appointment as General Counsel of the NLRB less than 10 months before the expiration of my term,” the labor board’s top lawyer wrote.

The NLRB enforces private-sector workers’ rights to organize, and its general counsel has sweeping authority to determine which types of cases the agency does or doesn’t pursue. Robb, a former management-side attorney who helped Ronald Reagan defeat the air traffic controller’s union, has pushed an aggressive, pro-business agenda at the labor board.

His term was slated to last until this coming November, but unions, including the Service Employees International Union and Communications Workers of America, have been urging Biden to break with precedent by forcing him out immediately, in order to begin reorienting the agency toward protecting workers.

Also on Wednesday, the Biden administration named Democrat Lauren McFerran to head the NLRB, replacing John Ring, the Republican chairman since 2018 who presided over major business-friendly decisions during the Trump administration.

McFerran, the NLRB’s sole Democrat, will still be outnumbered by Republicans, who told a 3-1 majority on the five member board. The fifth seat, reserved for a Democrat, is vacant.

‘Outrageous Ultimatum’

Robb appears to be the first NLRB general counsel to be forced out in more than half a century. The move angered Republicans and business attorneys who said it threatened the agency’s independent status and betrayed Biden’s call for unity in his inaugural address.

“This outrageous ultimatum that General Counsel Robb step down from his four-year Senate appointment less than ten months before the expiration of his term is unacceptable and flouts the National Labor Relations Act,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the ranking member on the House Education and Labor Committee.

For unions, Robb’s apparent removal offered reassurance that Biden would live up to his pledge to fully support labor. Union allies began calling for the general counsel’s ouster only days after the November election, pointing to the attorney’s record of siding with employers in key cases and efforts to rein in the agency’s regional offices.

“He has been a toxic figure in the NLRB,” said Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.), vice chair of the House Education and Labor Committee. “He has worked to undermine its mission.”

A Democratic replacement, who would need Senate confirmation, would be able to begin reversing the prior administration’s changes to agency procedure, though Democrats on the NLRB will still face gridlock until Republicans lose the board majority in August.

Trump Refrained

An NLRB spokesperson declined to comment on Robb’s status after 5 p.m. Wednesday. White House spokespeople didn’t respond when asked for comment.

Critics of the move noted that former President Donald Trump refrained from firing Richard Griffin, the NLRB general counsel during the Obama administration, allowing him to serve nine more months until the end of his term. Before that, Ronald Meisburg, a Republican appointed by President George W. Bush, served for more than a year under Obama.

“The timing and the optics are stunning,” said Michael Lotito, a management-side attorney at Littler Mendelson. “At the same time the president is talking about unity, you’re firing this individual of an independent agency without cause because unions have asked you to do it. So from a labor management perspective this isn’t about unity. This is about bare-knuckle politics.”

Robb clashed with Democrats on Capitol Hill throughout his tenure, especially over the agency’s failure to spend the entire allocation of its annual budget and a short-lived plan to centralize control over field operations and shorten investigations.

Fire Power

The fact that Robb might be the first NLRB general counsel ever to be fired raises raises legal questions. In 1950, then-President Harry Truman asked the NLRB general counsel at the time, Robert Denham, to leave over the execution of the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act. Denham voluntarily resigned.

Supporters of Robb’s ouster point to the more recent Supreme Court decision in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which affirmed the president’s authority to fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency similar in structure to the NLRB.

Others question that theory.

“Is Peter going to challenge this? Go into his own pocket to bring an action to contest it? I don’t know,” Lotito said.

—With assistance from Ben Penn, Andrew Kreighbaum, and Robert Iafolla

 

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FOR THE RECORD.I AM NOT POLITICAL.IT IS 2021.IF YOU ARE TO IGNORANT TO REALIZE THAT  THEY ARE ALL RAT SCUM BAGS AND THAT WASHINGTON IS A CESSPOOL OF CARPETBAGGERS FOR SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER YOU ARE DOOMED TO SPEND YOUR LIFE AS A DUMB ASS.THAT IS ON YOU

FOR THE RECORD.PETER ROBB IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ENDING THE  UBC MUPS EXTORTION PROGRAM.HE FORCED THE NLRB REGIONAL OFFICE TO DO THEIR JOB AND PROTECT WORKERS FROM SCUM BAGS INSTEAD OF SELLING OUT THE NLRB TO THEIR UNION HANDLERS

 

HEY BIDEN YOU SELL OUT UNION WHORE 

WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH THE UNIONS HAVE PAID YOU OFF
 

ANOTHER BAG OF CASH.ANOTHER DEAL. MARISA CANO ALSO GETS PAID OFF IN THE MALONEY CASE

 IT APPEARS CHICKEN DICK DECLARO WANTS TO MAKE SURE A FEDERAL JUDGE DOES NOT RULE IF MALONEYS AND OTHER FEMALES BIG BOOBS INDEED MAKE YOU FLOAT

TO REFRESH

 HOW MUCH MORE MEMBERS DUES MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT TO MAKE ANOTHER PAYOFF AND SETTLEMENT

 

HOW MUCH MEMBERS DUES MONEY WAS SPENT ON ALL THESE HIGH PRICED LEGAL HACKS TO GET RID OF DOUG'S "SHES NOT MY GIRLFRIEND" SANDRA MALONEY

 

HEY DOUGY.MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO YOUR BROTHER MIKE WHEN HE CALLED BS ON SANDRA MALONEY FOR THE HUGE RAISE, UBC VEHICLE AND APARTMENT IN MARINA DEL RAY YOU GAVE HER. INSTEAD OF SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY FALSELY ACCUSING MIKE MCCARRON AND ATTACKING HIM YOU SHOULD HAVE KISSED HIS ASS AND THANKED HIM.IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH CHEAPER

 

QUICK COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. THOSE THAT ARE DOING THE MATH WANT TO KNOW. 

 

WHEN JOHN BOB DECARLO AND DANNY BOY SHANLEY HELD ONE MEETING TO ACCUSE AND A SECOND MEETING TO FIRE A UBC EMPLOYEE(MALONEY) DID THEY BILL THE UBC?WHEN JOHN BOB DECARLO AND DANNY BOY SHANLEY ESCORTED A UBC EMPLOYEE TO THEIR VEHICLE SEIZE THEIR KEYS AND ETC.  DID THEY BILL THE UBC? 

IN WHAT CAPACITY WERE THEY ACTING.

 

 

JUST SO CHICKEN DICK DECARLO AND CROOKED TEETH SHANLEY UNDERSTAND.

 

ITS TOO LATE DUMB ASS. THE CATS OUT OF THE BAG AND YOU ARE NOT PUTTING IT BACK IN

 

 TELL ME CHICKEN DICK. WHEN YOU PAID HER OFF DID DIRTY DOUG'S "SHES NOT MY GIRL FRIEND" SANDRA MALONEY ADMIT DOUGY DID NOT SAY THESE THINGS OR COMMIT THESE LEWD ACTS

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.IF THE ICE CREAM CRAPPER AND HIS CRONIES WERE INNOCENT WHY DID YOU SETTLE AND PAY MALONEY AND CANO OFF??

 

AND STOP THE BS THAT YOU WANTED TO SAVE THE COST OF FURTHER LITIGATION.NOBODY IN YOUR OFFICE OR ANY PLACE ELSE BELIEVES THAT BS STORY. 

YOU LOW LIFE  HACKS HAVE PROVEN OVER AND OVER THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO SPEND MILLIONS OF UBC MEMBERS MONEY TO WAGE FALSE LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST WHISTLE BLOWERS WHO EXPOSE THE UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE

 

RICHARD TRUMKAS UNION SHILL TRUMPS DIRTY DOUGYS UNION SHILL FOR SECRETARY OF LABOR

IN A BLATANT MOVE TO SELL OUT THE OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF LABOR TO UNION CRIMINAL SYNDICATES 

JOE "THE WALKING DEAD" BIDEN

 PICKS AFL-CIO DIRT BAG RICHARD TRUMKAS CHOICE FOR SECRETARY OF LABOR

 

 UNION FRONT MAN BOSTON MAYOR MARTY WALSH WILL BE BIDENS SECRETARY OF LABOR

HEY DOUGY I GUESS BIDEN THINKS YOU AND FRANKIE ARE DOUCHE BAGS LIKE WE DO AND DID NOT GIVE A RATS ASS WHO YOU PICKED FOR SECRETARY OF LABOR

UBC LACKEY DONNY NORCROSS IS STILL THE UBC DOG CATCHER

HEY FRANKIE ARE YOU PEEING YOURSELF WORRYING THAT LITTLE GEORGEY NORCROSS IS GOING TO BE UPSET YOU DID NOT DELIVER

GEORGE NORCROSS.

NJ POLITICAL HACK

FRANK SPENCER AND BUCKY MUELLERS BFF 

AND
MEMBER OF THE LOLLIPOP GUILD

 
 
   

LETS BE CLEAR.JOE BIDEN IS A BOUGHT AND PAID FOR POLITICAL SELL OUT WHO WILL ENRICH HIS UNION CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS AND WORK TO ALLOW UNION CRIMINAL SYNDICATES TO THRIVE

 

YOU CAN BET YOUR ASS THAT MARTY WALSH WILL WORK TO PREVENT THE HEADS OF UNION CRIMINAL SYNDICATES FROM BEING BROUGHT TO JUSTICE .WALSH AND BIDEN WILL RUN DUCK AND COVER ACTIONS FOR THESE SCUM BAG CROOKS.WATCH AS THE OLMS,EBSA AND NLRB GO BACK TO BEING PATSY'S FOR THE UNION CRIMINAL SYNDICATES

HEY JOEY BIDEN WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON RICHARD TRUMKA AND SEAN MCGARVEYS ATTACK ON UNION RETIREES AND OUR PENSION FUNDS. 

 

THESE ARE THE CARPETBAGGERS THAT CREATED THE PENSION CRISIS IN THIS COUNTRY AND ARE NOW ARE TRYING TO FORCE TAX PAYERS TO BAIL THEM OUT SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO LOOT AND MISMANAGE OUR PENSION FUNDS. THANK GOD YOU PICKED THEIR CHOICE FOR SECRETARY OF LABOR

MICHIGAN UBC CARPENTERS DENOUNCE UBC ATTEMPT TO ROB THEIR PENSIONS

  CARPENTERS IN DETROIT DENOUNCE DRACONIAN PENSION CUTS PROPOSED UNDER 2014 FEDERAL LAW

Debra Watson

The general assault on the pensions of US workers under the Obama era Kline-Miller Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 has now taken aim at the pensions of tens of thousands of construction workers in southeast Michigan. Nearly 20,000 active and retired carpenters and millwrights in the Detroit metropolitan area are facing deep cuts in their pensions in July 2021.

The Warren, Michigan-based Carpenters and Millwrights fund submitted a revised application in 2020 to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin under the Application for Suspension of Benefits required by the 2014 federal legislation. The current Board of Trustees includes now president of the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights, Mike Barnwell, and other officials of the carpenters and millwrights regional and local unions.

According to data presented to the US Treasury Department, the $772 million carpenters and millwrights fund is only 34.5 percent funded and in “critical and declining” status. It is projected to run out of money to pay benefits to 19,600 active or retired members by 2035.

The latest communications from trustees to members report the financial shortfalls have been exacerbated by the losses in construction jobs resulting from the coronavirus.

This is the second submission to the US Treasury by the fund. Some retirees have been told they would get cuts of 15 to 26 percent in their monthly checks. The comments from pension recipients related to looming cuts to Detroit-area carpenters were closed by the US Treasury Department in mid-December, 2020. The projected cuts have been denounced by many workers on the Regulations.gov comments website.

One retiree, Michael Fannelli, outlined how the new cuts only added to previous ones imposed under laws existing before the 2014 federal legislation. He wrote of his personal losses, “The Michigan carpenters fund trustees made the tough decisions in 2008 and raised retirement age to 58 and went to a 90 point requirement.” He goes on to explain how several more cuts were made at key points in the following decade, and he wrote that when he applied for retirement, “my body [was] worn out both knees needing replacement, already have undergone spinal fusion, rotator cuff repair, and hernia repair surgeries.” His original pension would be cut a total of 60 percent, combining the proposed and previous cuts from the amount he expected to retire on after he put in decades of work.

Another retired carpenter, Michael Vanderhoff wrote, “I have worked hard for 30 years and have been retired for 10 years. My body is shot! When I retired I felt confident I could survive on my pension. I feel I have been let down by both my union and government.”

The next step in the grim legalistic process, a vote by the participants of the fund to approve the draconian cuts, is thoroughly rigged and can only produce an outcome beneficial to business. The vote is largely a formality to create a legal facade to undermine protection and promises made to construction workers during their working lives.

The Kline-Miller Omnibus Bill of 2014, supported by Democrats and Republicans alike in Congress, is the vehicle being used by business interests to gut the pensions of construction workers and other major sections of the working class in the US. Ever wider layers of workers are losing retirement benefits as corporations seek to claw back all the gains workers made through past struggles.

For 40 years, under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974, defined benefit plans have been allowed to change the rate at which a worker earns future benefits, but could not reduce the amount of benefits a worker or retiree had already accumulated.

Single-employer pensions have long been under wholesale attack as corporate raiding and bankruptcies closed or reorganized capitalist firms in order to cut costs. The 2014 law created a mechanism to expand the cuts to skills and classes of workers who likely labor at several different employers during their working lives.

The Kline-Miller Omnibus Bill created a legal mechanism to attack the multiemployer plans covering the retirement benefits for workers in trucking, mining, construction and other sectors. It was crafted with direct collaboration between business, government and the unions collecting dues from these workers.

The passage of Kline-Miller was preceded by the historic ruling of bankruptcy judge Steven Rhodes in 2013, overriding the Michigan state constitution, to allow the gutting of pensions of tens of thousands of Detroit city workers.

Like the blackmail narrative that union tops used to engineer the favorable vote in the Detroit city workers case, if the carpenters plan is voted down, the trustees claim retirees would lose out anyway. According to the law, their multiemployer pension fund is expected to go broke and pensions then shifted to draw from the federal Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC). That would mean pension cuts of between 20 percent and 90 percent for each beneficiary in multiemployer plans.

A recent vote by the Southwest Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters Pension Plans 5,527 participants, concerning US Treasury-approved reductions under the same pension reform law, revealed a great deal about how the process is rigged against workers. The Treasury authorized the cuts based on a formula that counted non-voters as “yes” votes. The plan had been rejected nearly two to one by those voting.

Just as alarming is the fact that the multiemployer PBGC itself is expected to be bankrupt by 2025. The multiemployer plan was underfunded by $638 billion in 2015, up from $193 billion in 2007. The PBGC had a $54 billion deficit in 2018, up from $739 million in 2006.

A Treasury acceptance letter for an Ohio carpenters trust fund approved in 2019 says that the fund must now prove solvency every year going forward.

The massive fund for Detroit-area construction workers is one of about 125 multiemployer pension plans nationwide. The multiemployer funds that already have or are expected to submit applications for permission to cut benefits soon, affect 1.4 million workers and retirees in the US.

Among the multiemployer plans in trouble and listed on Treasury’s pension reform site is the United Central States Pension Fund, covering truckers and UPS retirees. A plan proposing cuts of up to an 80 percent reduction in benefits was rejected as insufficient by Treasury officials in 2016, based on “inequity” in cuts to general truck drivers and some of the UPS participants. There are 400,000 participants and beneficiaries depending on the fund.

Various schemes to bolster failing pension funds have made no progress in Congress.

None offer a solution. An incentive to further risky investments comes as carpenters have cited the bad investments and outright graft that contributed to the insolvency of the fund and reduced benefits through point and retirement age adjustments in previous years.

One retired carpenter told the World Socialist Web Site that the number of employers who no longer pay into the carpenters pension fund has mushroomed. He noted: “Yes, there are less young people paying in,” referring to some estimates that put 2.5 retirees to every working carpenter or millwright paying into the plan. He continued: “But how did that happen? You have a lot of construction now but many of the jobs—sometimes the same construction companies that were in it before—not contributing into the pension plan. How can there be all that construction going on in downtown Detroit and there be so many fewer construction workers paying in?

“This has been going on for some time. First the pension trustees told us that it would only affect the younger guys, not the ones who had been working for a while or already been retired. It’s a very complicated formula now but I hear all are going to be cut by some amount.

“I think there should be an investigation of the corruption. As to the claim they made bad investments—whatever they did they lined their own pockets. [Former chairman of the pension fund’s board] Ralph Mabry went to jail, convicted and put on one year supervised release. The federal government seized files and everything.

“I have a lot of relatives who are carpenters and they are going to lose at least 15 percent across the board. One of my younger relatives told me recently that he has not worked a union job in five years.”

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TWO YEARS AND HUGE BALLS. A LESSON IN DETERMINATION.UBC MEMBER ROY ERNST ENDS MUPS EXTORTION PROGRAM.NOW IT IS YOUR TURN TO STAND UP!!!

    HEY WEE WITTLE BILLY SPROULE IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT YOU CAN “GO WORK NON UNION”

 

 

 

THE NEXT TIME SOME UBC LOUD MOUTH PUNK TELLS YOU THAT “YOU WILL OR ELSE”. TELL THEM TO KISS YOUR ASS

 

RATHER THAN FACE AN NLRB JUDGE THE UBC AND THEIR LEGAL HACK RAY HINEYMAN SETTLED ON ALL CHARGES

RATHER THAN FACE AN NLRB JUDGE THE UBC AND THEIR LEGAL HACK BRIAN "BABY" QUINN SETTLED ON THE INTERNATIONAL CHARGE

 

ROY ERNST DEDICATED 2 YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN A FIGHT TO END THE UBC EXTORTION OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS.DESPITE FIGHTING AN NLRB THAT FOUGHT HIM THE ENTIRE WAY AND REFUSED TO DO THEIR JOBS ROY ERNST FORCED THEM.DESPITE DEALING WITH UNION LEGAL HACKS WHO STALLED,LIED TO JUDGES AND NLRB LAWYERS AS WELL AS  ATTEMPTED TO INTIMIDATE WITNESSES ROY ERNST PREVAILED.

 

MAKE NO MISTAKE.THE NLRB ARE STILL WHORES FOR THE UNIONS AND REFUSE TO HONOR THEIR MISSION TO PROTECT WORKERS. INSTEAD THEY HAVE SOLD THE NLRB TO UNION CRIMINAL SYNDICATES AND ACT TO FORCE UNIONS ON ALL WORKERS AND WORK TO GET UNIONS A CUT OF THE ACTION. 

 

AS THEY DID HERE THEY DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO PREVENT CHARGES FROM BEING FILED AGAINST THEIR UNION PALS. WHEN THEY ARE FORCED TO FILE THE CHARGES, WHICH IN THIS CASE HAD TO BE FORCED ON THE REGIONAL OFFICE BY THE DIVISION OF ADVICE,THEY COERCE  THE CHARGING PARTY TO SIGN A SETTLEMENT THAT IS FAVORABLE TO THE UNION

 

ASK YOURSELF HOW IN GODS NAME IT COULD POSSIBLY TAKE THE NLRB 2 YEARS STOP A UNION CRIMINAL SYNDICATE FROM ROBBING ITS OWN MEMBERS.

 

      ASK THE NLRB WHY IT REUSED TAKE THE STEPS TO END THIS EXTORTION IN ALL UBC COUNCILS NATIONWIDE WHEN THEY HAD THE CHANCE IN THIS CASE. WHY ARE THEY FORCING MEMBERS TO FILE MORE CHARGES IN THE HOPE THEY CAN DETER THEM AND REFUSE TO FILE THE CHARGES.

 

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW AND WHY IT TOOK TWO YEARS OR JOIN IN EXPOSING THE NLRB JUST ASK AND WE WILL SHARE THE INFORMATION.

DESPITE THEIR BLATANT LIES TO THE CONTRARY:

 (1)THE UBC IMPOSED FINES ON UBC MEMBERS TO FORCE THEM NOT TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS UNDER THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT.

 

(2)THEY TRIED TO FALSELY DECLARE THE FINES "ASSESSMENTS" AND THEN TRIED TO HIDE BEHIND THE WORD.

 

(3)THEY THEN REFUSED TO ACCEPT MEMBERS WINDOW DUES UNLESS THEY PAID THE ILLEGAL MUPS FINES. AFTER 3 MONTHS MEMBERS WERE DECLARED NOT IN GOOD STANDING AND AFTER 6 MONTHS REMOVED FROM THE MASTER MEMBERSHIP LIST

 

(4) EVEN THOUGH SOME MEMBERS WINDOW DUES WERE PAID A YEAR IN ADVANCE AFTER 3 MONTHS THESE MEMBERS WERE ALSO DECLARED NOT IN GOOD STANDING AND AFTER 6 MONTHS REMOVED FROM THE MASTER MEMBERSHIP LIST FOR NOT PAYING THE MUPS FINES

 

(5) THESE UBC RATS THEN WENT TO THE UBC MEMBERS EMPLOYER AND DEMANDED THE EMPLOYER REMOVE THE MEMBER FROM THE JOB AND  THE COMPANY PAYROLL UNLESS THE MEMBER PAID THE MUPP FINES,ANY DUES THESE RATS REFUSED TO LET THE MEMBER PAY AND FORCED THEM TO PAY AN ADDITIONAL YEARS DUES IN ADVANCE.(UBC LEGAL HACK BRIAN "BABY" QUINN LIED TO A JUDGE AND THE NLRB AND DECLARED THIS NEVER HAPPENED)

BABY QUINN THEN CRIED BECAUSE HE WAS EXPOSED FOR THE LYING SACK HE IS

 

(6) WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT THE LEGALITY OF WHAT THEY WERE DOING UBC PUNK  BILLY SPROULE  TOLD MEMBER ROY ERNST TO DO AS HE WAS TOLD AND IF HE DID LIKE IT HE COULD GO WORK NON UNION.HE ALSO DECLARED THAT "NLRB DECISIONS MEAN NOTHING".

 

(7)THE UBC INTERNATIONAL HAND PICKED STOOGE AND EASTERN REP DAN CHRISTIE DECLARED FROM THE PODIUM AT A DELEGATES CONVENTION THAT "THE COUNCIL WAS GOING TO WIN ALL THE CHARGES" AND THAT MEMBER ROY ERNST "DID NOT DESERVE THEIR REPRESENTATION" BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO BE EXTORTED

 

 BROTHER ERSNT WORKED FOR TWO YEARS TO STOP HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM BEING EXTORTED.WITH THE HELP OF OTHER MEMBERS THAT STOOD UP AND STILL OTHERS THAT CAME FORWARD AS WITNESSES TO THE EXTORTION HE HAS ENDED THE MUPS EXTORTION AT THE EASTERN ATLANTIC COUNCIL.

 

 

THIS EXTORTION PROGRAM IS NOT UNIQUE TO THE KEYSTONE COUNCIL CROOKS

  THE UBC RATS AT THE NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL AND OTHER COUNCILS ARE STILL EXTORTING UBC MEMBERS AND COMMITTING THE SAME ACTS THE NLRB SETTLEMENT HAS DECLARED THE KEYSTONE CLOWNS MUST CEASE AND DESIST

 

THE UBC CROOKS AT THE NYC DISTRICT COUNCIL TRIED THE SAME EXTORTION EVEN GOING AS FAR AS TO HOLD UBC MEMBERS VACATION CHECKS HOSTAGE TO FORCE THEM TO PAY THE BS MUPS FINES. THEY HAD TO BE STOPPED BY THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS CONSENT JUDGE

 

 MEMBER ROY ERNST DID A GREAT SERVICE FOR ALL UBC MEMBERS BUT I DOUBT HE WOULD LET YOU THANK HIM. HE SIMPLY BELIEVED IN RIGHT AND WRONG AND REFUSED TO BE EXTORTED.HE WORKED HARD TO STOP HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM BEING EXTORTED. HE REFUSED TO LET SOME UBC PUNK LIKE SPROULE RUN HIS MOUTH AND DISRESPECT A UBC MEMBER WITHOUT PAYING THE PRICE

ANY UBC MEMBERS WHO ARE STILL BEING EXTORTED BY UBC MUPS PROGRAMS. AND ARE INTERESTED IN FOLLOWING ROY ERNSTS EXAMPLE OF STANDING UP FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS REACH OUT. IF YOU NEED HELP WITH THE PROCESS OR DOCUMENTATION REACH OUT. 

 

ANY MEMBERS WHO LOST WORK AND WAGES DUE TO THE MUPS EXTORTION AND THE ACTIONS OF THE UBC RATS REACH OUT AS A LAW SUIT IS BEING PURSUED

 

ANY UBC MEMBERS WHO WANT TO JOIN IN THE EFFORT TO FORCE THE UBC TO SHOW THE FEDS WHERE THE MUPS MONEY WENT REACH OUT

 

Ex-Employees of Carpenters Council in New Jersey File Whistleblower Suit

NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER

January 6, 2021 by Carl Horowitz

When it comes to retaliation against those who expose corruption, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has few rivals. Five recently fired staff members of a New Jersey-based affiliate know this first-hand – and are taking action. On December 1, the former employees filed suit in New Jersey State Superior Court in Newark against a regional union benefit fund and its executive secretary, claiming they were ousted from their jobs last March for supporting a union official who had been terminated ostensibly for alerting law enforcement to the theft of about $1.5 million in benefits. Ex-benefits manager George Laufenberg had been indicted in September 2019 on federal fraud charges following a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General and Employee Benefits Security Administration, assisted by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The focus of attention, as Union Corruption Update explained late in 2019, is George Laufenberg, until recently manager of the New Jersey Carpenters’ Pension, Annuity, Health and Training/Apprenticeship Fund and a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Laufenberg, now 70, a resident of Harvey Cedars (Ocean County), N.J., allegedly used his union position to embezzle more than $1.5 million in retirement funds and other union assets in a variety of ways. The Labor Department launched a probe in 2017 after John Ballantyne, executive secretary-treasurer of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters, alerted the DOL about the missing funds. The union fired Ballantyne in May 2018 and dissolved the council, replacing it with the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters. Five months later, Ballantyne, along with former union employees Robert Weakly and Robert Czarnecki, filed a whistleblower suit in New Jersey Superior Court alleging extensive “self-dealing and corruption” by Carpenters General President Douglas McCarron and two other top union officials. The suit was dismissed.

As union top brass retaliated against Ballantyne, it also has retaliated against five persons who sided with him. These individuals – John Ballantyne’s son Justin, New Jersey State Assemblyman and longtime Carpenters union member Anthony Verrelli (D-Trenton), and union activists Alex Lopez, Susan Schultz and Vanessa Salazar – responded with their own whistleblower lawsuit on December 1 in New Jersey Superior Court in Essex County (Newark) against the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council and its secretary-treasurer. Using New Jersey’s Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) and Law Against Discrimination Act (LAD) as the basis for their action, the plaintiffs are seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, back pay and retirement benefits, plus attorney’s fees.

Plaintiffs’ attorney Nancy Erika Smith of the Smith Mullin firm in Montclair, N.J. insists her clients were fired via email on March 27 of last year without warning. This was a case of “textbook retaliation,” she said. “They purged anyone affiliated with John Ballantyne.” What’s more, added Smith, the union continually harassed the dissenters. “They (the dissenters),” she noted, “were verbally threatened and stalked; tracking devices were surreptitiously hidden on their vehicles; their phones were monitored; and their every movement was scrutinized and questioned.” The retaliation went further. According to the complaint, the union cut the employees’ pay and budgets, demoted them, and forced them to relinquish the passwords to their digital devices. Moreover, the union reassigned the dissenters to distant job sites, significantly adding to their daily commute. In short, the union did everything possible to frustrate these employees into quitting, and when that didn’t work, it fired them.

The union has a different account of things. Frank Mahoney, communications director for the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council, says the dismissals had nothing to do with retaliation. “It is unfortunate that former employees would make such accusations about our union,” said Mahoney. “In the midst of a global pandemic, our council had to make the tough and unfortunate decisions many other unions, businesses and organizations had to make regarding staffing levels.” He added that the union has decreased staffing levels in every state under council jurisdiction. In addition to New Jersey, that means Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Smith isn’t buying this explanation. “There were no work stoppages caused by the coronavirus; union members with much less seniority were not laid off; and members in other related unions were only temporarily furloughed,” she remarked. “The union leadership saw in the pandemic an opportunity to clean house of troublemakers who wanted to move the union forward, to change the decades-long, white-men-only culture in which no one questioned leadership.”

The second part of Smith’s comment, unfortunately, reveals political motives apart from whistle-blowing. The issue is not a “white men only” culture in the Carpenters or any other union. Bringing in more women and nonwhites to run things won’t necessarily mitigate corruption. Over the years, Union Corruption Update has published hundreds, if not thousands of stories on women and members of racial minorities ripping off unions, and often in large amounts. Racial and gender quotas are about the last thing any labor organization needs. But that said, the dissenters are right to file suit. Union members have a right under law to speak out against what they see as misconduct by their officers. The Carpenters at the international and district levels need to be transparent about the harassment and firing of the plaintiffs, the firing of John Ballantyne, and the apparent theft by the indicted George Laufenberg of at least $1.5 million in retirement benefits meant for dues-paying members.   

 

 

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UBC LEGAL HACK RAY HINEYMAN GETS HIS ASS HANDED TO HIM

 THIS IS RAY HINEYMAN OF 

 Kroll Heineman Carton, LLC 

RAY IS THE LEGAL HACK AND LYING  SACK OF SHYTE FOR THE UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE IN NEW JERSEY.RAY IS ALSO AN EX NLRB LAWYER HIRED BY THE UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE FOR THAT REASON

 

WE BELIEVE THIS IS RAY HINEYMAN AT THE BEACH ON THE JERSEY SHORE

 (UNCONFIRMED  BUT HEY IF THE SHOE FITS)

 

 

RAY HINEYMAN HAS WORKED DILIGENTLY TO ALLOW THE UBC PUNKS TO EXTORT THEIR MEMBERS.HEY RAY WANT MY PERSONAL EMAILS?YOU CAN KISS MY ASS

 

 

NOW HE HAS TO LIVE WITH THE FACT THAT UBC CARPENTER ROY ERNST JUST HANDED HIM HIS ASS 

 

 

I WONDER HOW THIS NEWS WILL HELP SECURE CLIENTS FOR YOUR LAW FIRM

 

 

HEY RAY
 

 HEY RAY HINEYMAN

YES YOU DID

HEY RAY HINEYMAN.

I THINK YOU CAN PUT THIS BACK ON WITH SUPER GLUE.IF NOT I AM SURE ONE OF THE MANY UBC MEMBERS YOU WORKED SO HARD TO SCREW WILL RETURN THE FAVOR WITH A CORDLESS AND A COUPLE OF SHEET ROCK SCREWS

SUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP OR ARE YOU GOING TO CRY LIKE BRIAN "BABY" QUINN THE UBC LEGAL HACK AND LIAR ON THE WEST COAST

 

 

AND RAY.WHETHER YOU OR YOUR BFF LIKE IT OR NOT..... WE ARE NOT DONE WITH HIM OR YOU JUST YET

GET USED TO IT

OH YES .HEY WEE WITTLE BILLY SPROULES. AKA ARSE FACE

TELL US ALL THE STORY HOW THE NLRB DECISIONS MEAN NOTHING.MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE READ THOSE LAW BOOKS BECAUSE YOU CLEARLY DO NOT HAVE A FRIGGIN CLUE. ROY ERNST JUST WHOOPED YOUR ASS .YOU ARE GOING TO NEED MUCH LARGER KNEE PADS TO GET DIRTY DOUG AND FRANKIE THE CHIMP TO NOT SHYTE CAN YOUR ASS.

 

YOU BETTER PUCKER UP BUTTERCUP.I AM SURE YOU WILL HAVE TO FIGHT TRISH MUELLER FOR A SPOT AT THE UBC ASS KISSING TROUGH. I AM BETTING TRISHY MAY BE THE DOMINATE MALE IN THE DROVE ...LETS CHECK THE VEGAS ODDS

 

HEY ARSE FACE. IF FRANKIE KICKS YOU TO THE CURB MAYBE YOU CAN GET A JOB AS A POLE DANCER. 

 

I MEAN SINCE YOU ARE THE UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE HAND PICKED EASTERN EST IT IS CLEAR YOU HAVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH POLES

 

 

FRANKY "THE CHIMP SPENCER" IS NO STRANGER TO CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

 

NOW TELL ME THIS IS NOT FRANKYS TWIN

 

AS THE FEDS STICK THE "MUELLER SCOPE" UP FRANKY "THE CHIMP"SPENCERS ASS.OR AS FRANKIE CALLS THE SCOPE. HIS BIG BOY TOY

 

LETS WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE

 "At a January 2009 dinner at the Old Homestead Restaurant in Manhattan, Mr. Spencer was present with Mr. Forde and seven other district council officials and staff members to swear in new officers, according to expense reports filed as exhibits with Mr. Walsh’s report. The bill for the meal, which took place five months before Mr. Forde’s indictment, was $2,233.59, or nearly $250 a person"

 

 "Most financial improprieties, occurred before Mr. Spencer’s supervision began.

But some troubling spending practices continued under his watch, according to the report."

 

 "But the 71-page document, the First Interim Report of the Review Officer, which was filed in federal court in Manhattan, accompanied by hundreds of pages of exhibits, includes evidence and troubling allegations that some of the same kinds of misconduct that led to the 2009 charges have continued under Mr. Spencer’s supervision."

 

READ THE INTERIM REPORT HERE 

 

 

 

 

 

Review of Carpenters’ Union Shows Corruption Persists

 William Rashbaum

NY TIMES
Jan. 9, 2011

 

  Frank Spencer,  was installed by the parent union in August 2009, days after the federal racketeering indictment was unsealed charging the district council’s leader, Michael J. Forde, and nine others, including union officials, contractors and the head of an industry association.

But the 71-page document, the First Interim Report of the Review Officer, which was filed in federal court in Manhattan, accompanied by hundreds of pages of exhibits, includes evidence and troubling allegations that some of the same kinds of misconduct that led to the 2009 charges have continued under Mr. Spencer’s supervision.

“My office has deep historical knowledge and is developing current information about actual and attempted influence of organized crime over the affairs of the district council and the funds,” the review officer, Dennis M. Walsh, wrote in the report. “We have developed sufficient information to reasonably suspect that there are certain district council employees who have been and are currently under the influence of La Cosa Nostra figures.”

The report said individuals involved in running some of the local unions were under scrutiny for similar ties, something Mr. Walsh said was “a matter of grave import” that remained under investigation.

Mr. Walsh was appointed in June by a federal judge presiding over a two-decade-old civil racketeering lawsuit brought by the federal government against the district council charging corruption and mob control. That case resulted in a 1994 consent decree meant to clean up the union, a task that, based on the 2009 criminal case and Mr. Walsh’s report, remains far from complete. 

 

Mr. Forde and eight union officials and contractors have pleaded guilty in the criminal case. Joseph Olivieri, the former head of the Association of Wall-Ceiling and Carpentry Industries of New York, went to trial and was convicted in late October of perjury for lying about his ties to organized crime figures. Mr. Forde was sentenced in November to 11 years in prison, and a union shop steward, Michael Brennan, was sentenced to five years. The other eight men are to be sentenced this year.

 

Since the consent decree was signed, Mr. Walsh, who says in the report that his staff is made up of former law prosecutors and investigators with experience in organized crime cases and unions, is the fourth outsider assigned either to investigate allegations of corruption or to monitor the district council.The report provides a detailed review of excessive spending by senior officials of the district council and the local unions, and a range of other financial improprieties, most of which occurred before Mr. Spencer’s supervision began.

But some troubling spending practices continued under his watch, according to the report. Among them was a retirement party for Denis Sheil, a longtime officer and business manager of Local 1536 and the District Council vice president since 2002.

Upon his retirement in 2009, Mr. Sheil was given a $15,064 all-terrain vehicle by the local and an $8,328 gold Rolex watch by the district council. He was initially allowed to keep about $30,000 in cash that remained in a fund set up for his retirement dinner after the $14,176 bill was paid, according to the report. Mr. Sheil later returned the money.

And at a January 2009 dinner at the Old Homestead Restaurant in Manhattan, Mr. Spencer was present with Mr. Forde and seven other district council officials and staff members to swear in new officers, according to expense reports filed as exhibits with Mr. Walsh’s report. The bill for the meal, which took place five months before Mr. Forde’s indictment, was $2,233.59, or nearly $250 a person.

A spokesman for the parent union, Scott Widmeyer, defended Mr. Spencer’s tenure. And while Mr. Widmeyer did not respond to a question about Mr. Sheil’s retirement gifts, he said Mr. Spencer recalled that he presided over the swearing-in ceremony and stopped by a restaurant afterward, but that he did not stay for dinner

“We view this as a work in progress,” Mr. Widmeyer wrote in an e-mail late last month. “Frank Spencer characterizes this as peeling an onion. Each time you peel, you find another problem. So we keep peeling away.”

Mr. Widmeyer said that under the emergency supervision, 17 employees had been terminated for issues like misusing funds, excessive spending, drug use and manipulating the out-of-work lists.

“We are making progress, and more needs to be made and will be made,” he said, adding, “Today there is far greater transparency, and organizing efforts are succeeding.”

He said the parent union’s recent closing of Local 608, one of the district council’s more troubled units, indicated that the effort was continuing and aggressive.

But, as Mr. Walsh points out in his report, the challenge facing the District Council is not insignificant. It has been for decades, he noted, “a fiefdom for brutes, thieves, con men and other species of racketeers who have subjugated and robbed its members and vitiated its democratic and benevolent purpose.”

“The record also demonstrates,” he wrote, “that efforts to achieve systemic reform have been trampled by the seemingly limitless capacity of racketeers to blithely disregard the orders of this court and the risk of criminal prosecution as they pursue wealth, political power and satisfy their sybaritic yearnings.”

In an e-mail, Mr. Walsh said his goal was “to build a strong institution that can police itself, is ethical, uses technology to surmount ancient racketeering methods, hires people on merit, reviews their performance objectively and spends money prudently and with close internal oversight and provides a fair justice system for its members.”

 

MORE FRANKY SPENCER FRAUD ALLEGATIONS

THOMAS CANTO JR
 HEY FBI YOU LISTENING

 Thomas Canto Jr. WHO was the son of union leader Thomas Canto, Spencer’s colleague at the New Jersey Regional Council of Carpenters.” ONE DAY TOM WAS WORKING AT THE YMCA AND NEXT HE WAS SECURITY COORDINATOR FOR THE ATLANTIC CITY INTERNATIONAL AIR PORT

 

The accusations of patronage are not new. In June, the authority hired former Camden County Parks Director Bart Mueller, a close friend of FRANK SPENCER'S  to oversee the E-ZPass toll collection system on the expressway.

BART MUELLER

HEY FBI YOU LISTENING
Republicans had tried to stop Mueller from joining the SJTA in any capacity. They charged that Mueller wasn't qualified for the job and was picked because of his ties to two prominent Camden County Democrats — Frank Spencer, a union leader and SJTA chairman, and political power broker George Norcross III.

 
AMD LETS NOT FORGET BART MUELLER IS THE DADDY OF FRANKYS "VOICE" TRISH  MUELLER

 

 HOW ARE THE FEDS ALLOWING A WELL DOCUMENTED CROOK TO CONTINUE TO TO BE PART OF THE UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE AND ROB UBC MEMBERS

 

FUNNELING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF UBC MEMBERS MONEY TO NEW JERSEY SCUM BAGS

 

ASSOCIATION WITH KNOWN CRIMINALS

 

BULL SHYTE CONSULTING FEES

 

NO SHOW JOBS 

 

RETALIATION AGAINST THOSE WHO EXPOSED HIS CORRUPT ACTS WHICH COST THE UBC MEMBERS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO SETTLE LEGAL CASES.

HIDING WAGES IN AN ANNUITY TO AVOID PAYING TAXES

 

 

NEED WE GO ON

 

WHEN DOES IT STOP??