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Hoffa fighting to remove the Independent Review Board?
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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1343016" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>I hate the IRB and the fact that hundreds of thousands of dollars of our dues money goes to paying the salaries of the board members, their staff, and for their posh offices in NYC.</p><p></p><p>However, the internal review mechanism that Hoffa tried to install to replace the IRB (Project RISE) was a joke. The lawyer in charge of running it resigned in protest and the whole thing crashed and burned.</p><p></p><p>While there's not the same level of outright corruption (La Cosa Nostra members running locals/joint councils, pension and health care fund skimming, violence, etc.) as there was in the past, there's still some pretty lousy <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> going involving nepotism and misuse of the member's money; a perfect example would be the <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> in Local 120.</p><p></p><p>All that being said, however, secretly changing the IBT constitution to slam three local supplements through over the opposition of their members was awful anti-democratic. It was "probably" legal (I guarantee IBT legal went through every angle to make sure it could be done legitimately) but definitely against the "spirit" of union democracy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1343016, member: 42270"] I hate the IRB and the fact that hundreds of thousands of dollars of our dues money goes to paying the salaries of the board members, their staff, and for their posh offices in NYC. However, the internal review mechanism that Hoffa tried to install to replace the IRB (Project RISE) was a joke. The lawyer in charge of running it resigned in protest and the whole thing crashed and burned. While there's not the same level of outright corruption (La Cosa Nostra members running locals/joint councils, pension and health care fund skimming, violence, etc.) as there was in the past, there's still some pretty lousy :censored: going involving nepotism and misuse of the member's money; a perfect example would be the :censored: in Local 120. All that being said, however, secretly changing the IBT constitution to slam three local supplements through over the opposition of their members was awful anti-democratic. It was "probably" legal (I guarantee IBT legal went through every angle to make sure it could be done legitimately) but definitely against the "spirit" of union democracy. [/QUOTE]
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