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Two Teamsters United Delegate Slates Nominated Today in Texas
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<blockquote data-quote="Orion Syndicate" data-source="post: 2067548" data-attributes="member: 53075"><p>You would think they'd be accountable to the membership but we've had lame duck leaders for 20+years, lead to a lot of apathy. Which leads me to why I'm opposed to appointed positions. We have non-ups companies in our local whose membership numbers are dangerously low due to lack of active representation. Our VP is a decent enough fellow but a below average BA at best, not active on shop floors. Guess who the President made the BA at one of the struggling companies? When we need a push in the other direction, one that an elected BA from that Shop even could bolster our numbers strengthening the local we get cronyism at its finest to waste $130 Gs. </p><p>Here's our local in a nutshell: </p><p>The slate in power literally split, misconduct on both sides to the point of criminal proportion and one side destroyed the other. Measures were taken by both those factions to prevent anyone else from running for local EBoard positions preventing accountability once again. Our choice was one political mess or the other. Our newly elected president who was the secretary treasurer under the old regime and has been living off the union dime for nearly 20 years had to get a stay by Hoffa from being found guilty by Joint Council 80 of serious charges just to run. And that guy won which shows you how bad the other guys were! And that's who is appointing our BAs. There is a reformist movement forming but the apathy is strong with this local, we shall see if anything will come from it or were stuck with the same ole BS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orion Syndicate, post: 2067548, member: 53075"] You would think they'd be accountable to the membership but we've had lame duck leaders for 20+years, lead to a lot of apathy. Which leads me to why I'm opposed to appointed positions. We have non-ups companies in our local whose membership numbers are dangerously low due to lack of active representation. Our VP is a decent enough fellow but a below average BA at best, not active on shop floors. Guess who the President made the BA at one of the struggling companies? When we need a push in the other direction, one that an elected BA from that Shop even could bolster our numbers strengthening the local we get cronyism at its finest to waste $130 Gs. Here's our local in a nutshell: The slate in power literally split, misconduct on both sides to the point of criminal proportion and one side destroyed the other. Measures were taken by both those factions to prevent anyone else from running for local EBoard positions preventing accountability once again. Our choice was one political mess or the other. Our newly elected president who was the secretary treasurer under the old regime and has been living off the union dime for nearly 20 years had to get a stay by Hoffa from being found guilty by Joint Council 80 of serious charges just to run. And that guy won which shows you how bad the other guys were! And that's who is appointing our BAs. There is a reformist movement forming but the apathy is strong with this local, we shall see if anything will come from it or were stuck with the same ole BS. [/QUOTE]
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