You speak of knowledge and intelligence, you lack everything in a teamsters DNA. You as a teamster have an obligation to make the union stronger, are you, not from what I have seen. You are worried about your ego and making sure you get credit for everything and even stealing credit from others on occasion, check opposing posters. Previous postings on here have labeled you a recovering addict. I applaud you for that but how many relapses have you had? On another site someone talked of the Norton clause is that you?
Now for the clincher. You talk of going to the meetings do you ever speak up ask questions or do you sit in the audience and play the part of a fool? As is customary an officer orally reviews the financial records. How are your locals finances? Would you like to know? The local has over spent to the tune of $600,000 dollars more than they have taken in over the coarse of the last several years. 2014 the local made a payment of $50,000 but manage to still decrease the net worth of the local for the 5th consecutive year. During this same period the net worth has dropped from $2.8 million to around $800,000 and that is that value of the building and land it sits on, check my numbers. The only money your local has is the money from the equity loan, and that is drying up quickly. Have you even looked at the lm2s? Why the need for 3 law firms? Is there a criminal working there because those not not just labor law firms?
You can come on here and try to defend the local but there is no defense for this. Any rational person would have seen this and stopped it after a year or two but not the principal officer, the E-board or the trustees who's job it is. why don't you get someone anyone from the E-board to address this. Expenses up, membership down is a recipe for disaster and why Hoffa hasn't trusteed the local is obvious, pay the per capita tax and deliver the votes. I assume you don't live like this you wouldn't let your significant other do this, why is it OK for the local to do it? The locals mantra is educate and they preach this when it comes to the contracts, why not the lm2s?